The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

I visited with Erkang Zheng, founder and CEO of JupiterOne , to discuss how an emerging discipline — referred to as “cyber asset attack surface management,” or CAASM – can help with this heavy lifting. Here are my takeaways: Imposing context. How do I notify, assign and track and verify?’ ” Zheng observes.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card. For a small fee, you could enter an email address and see every password ever associated with that address in a previous breach.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

Welcome to our May 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. According to Check Point’s data group manager, Omer Dembinsky, these scams present “two main potential problems here for enterprises”.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 19, 2020

Subject: Data Breach of [your service] Hi, my name is Troy Hunt and I run the ethical data breach notification service known as Have I Been Pwned: [link]. People regularly send me data from compromised systems which are being traded amongst individuals who collect breaches.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka’s identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became “ Orange ,” the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as “ RAMP.” “Hello Brian Krebs!

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2 billion fine in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Security researcher implemented a service to verify if your mobile number is included in the recent Facebook data leak. The data of Facebook users from 106 countries are available for free, over 32 million records belonging to users from the US, 11 from the UK, and 6 million users from India. ” Alosefer explained.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something. How long until it hits the big "1B"? ??

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Welcome to our December 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. But I hasten to inform all users that you should not panic. FTX customers offered refund in deepfake phishing scam.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Yet catastrophic network breaches continue apace. Here are excerpts of our full conversation, edited for clarity and length: LW: How did Spirent come to pivot from network performance testing to security? For our customers it often comes down to having to make a decision, ‘Do I want the performance or do I want the security?’.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Data leak discovered: 30.09.2020 Inova contacted: 01.10.2020 Amazon contacted: 06.10.2020 Turkish CERT contacted: 05.10.2020 Response received: – Server secured: 12.10.2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

The FBI has shared with Have I Been Pwned service 4 million email addresses collected by Emotet botnet and employed in malware campaigns. New sensitive breach: The FBI, Dutch NHTCU, German BKA and other international law enforcement agencies brought down the Emotet malware in Jan. ” reads the post published by HIBP.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This reality has made data security increasingly important, requiring a sea change in the way companies handle their documents. At Armstrong Archives , we’re here to help you navigate the transition into the digital age while still maintaining your essential paper files. But don’t worry, Armstrong Archives can help.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 7, 2021

Add to this the fact that scammers are more sophisticated, leveraging personal data previously stolen to pose as known, trusted businesses. by June 30, 2021, and in Canada by November 30, 2021, I thought it would be helpful to share info and insights, as well as tips to ensuring implementations are secure. How STIR/SHAKEN works.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

The emergence of ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and energy organizations, as well as the rising trend of large-scale data breaches, is putting governments' capacity to defend citizens' lives, property, and well-being in jeopardy.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

There's a title I never expected to write! But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. That was all great and I was happy to share my thoughts from the other side of the world.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This is when hackers try usernames and password combos leaked in data breaches at other companies, hoping that some users might have reused usernames and passwords across services. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. Yes, I am and no, I won't.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This week, we discuss the compromise of Metro Bank’s two-factor authentication system, nearly one million cyber attacks on the Student Loans Company, nearly 60,000 GDPR breaches and a surprising discovery for some marine biologists. Here are this week’s stories.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

TLS is the glue that holds together not just routine website data exchanges, but also each of the billions of machine-to-machine handshakes occurring daily to enable DevOps, cloud computing and IoT systems. It does this by verifying that the server involved is who it claims to be, based on the digital certificate issued to the server.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

Here's the tl;dr - someone named "Md. It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? ??

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IT Governance

JUNE 29, 2018

This week, we discuss the apparent leak of 340 million data records, a vulnerability that exposed sensitive BetVictor data, a data breach affecting up to 40,000 Ticketmaster customers, and the number of GDPR complaints since 25 May. Here are this week’s stories. usernames, passwords, URLs?—?is

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I know that because my account at Experian was recently hacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account. Entering my SSN and birthday at Experian showed my identity was tied to an email address I did not authorize. So once again I sought to re-register as myself at Experian.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

Since my credentials at the IRS will soon no longer work, I opted to create an ID.me account and share the experience here. An important preface to this walk-through is that verifying one’s self with Id.me An important preface to this walk-through is that verifying one’s self with Id.me account).

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

She talks about the various ways criminal hackers hide their work, what happens after ransomware hits on a system, how investigators go about looking for recovery information, and what type of skills those practitioners need t o succeed. I believe there’s no perfect crime. I believe there’s no perfect crime.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2023

The Emergence of DevOps Fun fact: In 2010 I was doing ‘development operations’ for a small engineering team. This proactive approach ensures that potential vulnerabilities are identified and addressed as early as possible, reducing the risk of costly breaches or downtime. Celebrate security teams.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

So, how do you know if it’s happening? Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). The reason phishing is an issue here is that it could be a way to propagate crippling malware throughout a population. Missing Data.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you find your name and home address posted online, how do you know where it came from? Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. If not i can upload it for you.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. KrebsOnSecurity shared a large amount of data gathered for this story with T-Mobile. ” TMO UP!

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Related: Adopting an assume-breach mindset With that in mind, Last Watchdog invited the cybersecurity experts we’ve worked with this past year for their perspectives on two questions that all company leaders should have top of mind: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

How then does one start securing it? Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. And as a consequence I inherited a family of raccoons living into my cottage. One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. Funny thing.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

How then does one start securing it? Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park. And as a consequence I inherited a family of raccoons living into my cottage. One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. Funny thing.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's usually something to the effect of "hey, have you seen the Spotify breach", to which I politely reply with a link to my old No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked blog post (it's just the output of a small set of credentials successfully tested against their service), and we all move on. Until the Naz.API list appeared.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 23, 2018

The wait is finally over—this Friday the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. Many of our clients ask us when and how they may be called upon to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR. Did we mention big data? What do we expect in terms of enforcement priorities?

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

There are presently 201k people monitoring domains in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). That's 201k people that have searched for a domain, left their email address for future notifications when the domain appears in a new breach and successfully verified that they control the domain. That's massive! Let's jump into it!

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

This breach has been flagged as "sensitive" which means it is not publicly searchable , rather you must demonstrate you control the email address being searched before the results are shown. That's the short version, here's the whole story: Ever heard that saying about how "data is the new oil"?

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2023

I've had loads of enormously useful feedback, much of which has shaped the state of the services we're launching here today. I've had loads of enormously useful feedback, much of which has shaped the state of the services we're launching here today.

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