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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

Krebs on Security

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. First American Financial Corp. Image: Linkedin. Santa Ana, Calif.-based billion in 2018.

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Access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo

Security Affairs

“Access to approximately 3,000 breached websites has been discovered for sale on a Russian-speaking underground marketplace called MagBo. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.”

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

A reader who was recently the victim of unemployment insurance fraud said he was told he should create an account at the Department of Homeland Security ‘s myE-Verify website , and place a lock on his Social Security number (SSN) to minimize the chances that ID thieves might abuse his identity for employment fraud in the future.

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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. If the CISO wants to drive better compliance, then they talk about how compliance is key to enabling sales and how the customers are demanding compliance to do business with the company.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Smart money.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The data is published after Medibank reportedly declines to pay a US$10 million ransom demand.

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Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Further, SSNs are a rather American construct with Canada having SINs (Social Insurance Number) and the UK having, well, NI (National Insurance) numbers are probably the closestequivalent. They put the data up for sale for $3,500,000. It's an email address of mine, yet clearly, none of the other data is mine.