Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. ” reads the announcement published by the UK NCA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 385 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over 10,000 data breaches. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2021

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. states to place a security freeze on their credit files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system. Ngrok Mining Botnet. Security Affairs – Newsletter ). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs. 20% discount.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve had a few deep discussions about this with Doug Dooley, chief operating officer at Data Theorem , a Palo Alto, Calif.-based based software security vendor specializing in API data protection. A classic example of this type of intrusion is the Capital One data breach. This makes perfect sense.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” [link]. Security breach suffered by credit bureau Equifax has cost $1.4 Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

The FBI will share compromised passwords that were discovered during investigations with the ‘ Pwned Passwords ‘ service implemented by the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The post FBI will share compromised passwords with HIBP Pwned Passwords appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. .” The post Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Data breaches.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2019

card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. THOMPSON used this access not only to steal data, but also used stolen computer power to “mine” cryptocurrency for her own benefit, a practice known as “ cryptojacking.””

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. According to the researchers, the data breach has occurred in May 2020 and the data was published on May 25.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2024

I've been harbouring some thoughts about the state of data breaches over recent months, and I feel they've finally manifested themselves into a cohesive enough story to write down. The breach is known, it's been reported in the public domain, but good luck ever getting an email about it yourself.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 13, 2024

I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever. Because that doesn't reconcile with reports about "nearly 3 billion people" with social security numbers exposed. number we keep seeing? Thanks guys.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Spam emails are a security concern.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

JM Bullion fell victim to a payment-card skimmer, which was in place for five months.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. 9, 2022 and Dec.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

Prosecutors said it had indexed, searchable information from more than 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records — including names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you. DHS’s myE-Verify homepage.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The thread on the hacking forum with the samples of alleged TikTok data has been deleted and the user banned for “lying about data breaches” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 5, 2022 "Lying about data breaches" Ugh, criminals are so untrustworthy!

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production. “Because of low security, more than 2TB of sensitive data related to weapons production was stolen from Solar Industries India Limited.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Monahan said virtually all of the victims she has assisted were longtime cryptocurrency investors, and security-minded individuals.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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