Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Strengthen your passwords. There’s no reason to still use the same password you came up with in high school. It’s a dirty truth that big businesses suffer data breaches – that means the longer you use a password the more likely it’s been hacked. The biggest retailers have deals all season long.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If data is involved, threat actors want to get their hands on it and exploit it. Some notable cyber incidents in the past half-decade include: McDonald's (2021): The fast-food giant suffered a data breach that exposed customer and employee information in South Korea and Taiwan. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Retail websites big and small can expect a lot of interest from shoppers looking for deals, and a lot of interest from cybercriminals looking to cash in on those shoppers, by stealing their credit card details with stealthy card skimmers. Set strong passwords. Passwords you’ve used elsewhere. Everyone’s an admin.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Get started with NCA’s Manage Your Privacy Settings page to check the settings of social media accounts, retail stores, apps and more. Protect your data Data privacy and cybersecurity go hand in hand. Keep your data secure by creating long, unique passwords and storing them in a password manager.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key Points Account credentials are highly valued by threat actors as they provide easy access to critical data. They are typically compromised through data breaches, malware (primarily infostealers), and user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key Points Account credentials are highly valued by threat actors as they provide easy access to critical data. They are typically compromised through data breaches, malware (primarily infostealers), and user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. For customers like retailers, as well as banks and business software providers, an outage like this can be a blow to your reputation as well as a financial loss. Human error plays a large role in the majority of all data breaches.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM. You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. He loves password managers. I use a password manager.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. The US largest home improvement retailer giant Home Depot agrees to $17.5 million settlement over the 2014 data breach. ” . . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 3, 2024

As Telegram describes the service, it's simple, private and secure and as such, has become very popular with those wishing to share content anonymously, including content related to data breaches. But are (or were) the passwords correct?  These details were leaked in previous data breaches.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 16, 2024

These incidents often culminate in credential theft, giving attackers a crucial foothold for launching data breaches, hijacking accounts, or committing financial fraud. Initial Infection In October 2024, a retail trade customer encountered a fake CAPTCHA (see Figure 2) hosted at inspyrehomedesign[.]com

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2018

Back in August, I pushed out a service as part of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to help organisations block bad passwords from their online things. I called it "Pwned Passwords" and released 320M of them from real-world data breaches via both a downloadable file and an online service. 1Password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

More retailers accept several forms of online payments. Use a reliable password manager. These tools allow you to set highly secure passwords (of the kind that you will never learn by heart), and you only need to remember the master password. Cryptocurrency trading accounts. Old accounts can also get compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The staple tools for authenticating a user are the user name and password. Passwords: A core element of authentication, passwords are the bane of security managers. Users must create memorable passwords that are very difficult to guess and unique to sometimes dozens of accounts. Do I Need a VPN At Home?

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