Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

He also shared a PayPal receipt and snippets of Facebook Messenger logs showing conversations in March 2014 with legendboy2050@yahoo.com. Constella also connects legendboy2050 to Facebook and Instagram accounts for one Abdala Tawfik from Cairo. This user’s Facebook page says Tawfik also uses the name Abdalla Khafagy.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

“The high incidence of Google and Facebook is expected, as they are such widely used platforms,” Flashpoint noted in an analysis of Genesis Market, observing that all ten of the ten most expensive bots at the time included Coinbase credentials. This is a developing story.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the indictment, Johnson stole employee information on all 65,000 then current and former employees, including their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and salaries. A Facebook profile with the same photo belongs to a Justin S. Johnson from Detroit.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

in Samara, Russia, and included Nordex’s date of birth as April 8, 1980 , as well as their ICQ number ( 228427661 ). ” This account had the same date of birth as Nordex, but a different email address: nordia@yandex.ru. That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 ” NORDIA Nordia@yandex.ru

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2023

One of the top cybersecurity stories of the year is unfolded with CL0P^_- going everywhere. 39 posts today, 72 for the week to date, 58 left roughly.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 16, 2021

» Related Stories Episode 206: What Might A Federal Data Privacy Law Mean In the US? In just the last two weeks, three of the world’s most prominent social networks have been linked to stories about data leaks. To hear Facebook , LinkedIn and Clubhouse speak, however, nothing is amiss.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In last week’s story on this topic, I suggested LinkedIn could take one simple step that would make it far easier for people to make informed decisions about whether to trust a given profile: Add a “created on” date for every profile. ”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Flashpoint said Truniger recruited “pen testers” for a new, then-unnamed cybercrime group, by posting their private Jabber instant messenger contact details on multiple Russian language coding forums, as well as on Facebook. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

“This blog is the story of a “zombie” Safari 0-day and how it came back from the dead to be disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022. The researcher noticed that the commits dated October 2016 and December 2016 were very large, she discovered that the commit in October changed 40 files with 900 additions and 1225 deletions.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Compromised data include names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit cards, passwords, license plates, citizen service numbers or passport data. Tens of millions of privacy-sensitive personal data have fallen into the hands of criminals as a result of this theft and trade.”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Facebook is holding it’s first ever “fMC” today – that’s Facebook Marketing Conference, and it’s announcing widely expected new ad formats. From the release just sent to me: Today, Facebook announced a new design for Pages, giving brands and businesses more ways to tell their story.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a quick recap of what we’ve shared to date, ChaosDB is what we named the chain of misconfigurations we found in the Cosmos DB service — specifically, multiple flaws in the way Microsoft introduced the Jupyter Notebook feature to the Cosmos DB service. This, however, was not the full story of ChaosDB. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2018

In this week’s podcast, we discuss the data incident at Superdrug, Facebook and Twitter removing accounts, and the ICO website being down. Here are this week’s stories: High-street retailer, Superdrug, suffered a data breach earlier this week. Dates of birth. Information stolen included: Names. Phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

Public data includes names, dates, pictures and messages sent, Hang Do Thi Duc was able to track a profile for some of them, such as two users identified with the monikers ‘The Cannabis Retailer’ and the ‘The cord dealer.’ this public URL. 207,984,218 public Venmo transactions.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

” Interestingly, Handschumacher’s public Facebook page remains public, and is replete with pictures that he posted of recent new vehicle aquisitions, including a pickup truck and multiple all-terrain vehicles and jet skis. All four major U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

Instead of creating an account on a website, you can connect via credentials from another provider, such as Facebook or Google. Stay up-to-date. To be stable and still benefit from the latest security updates, a good API should rely on a good security network, infrastructure and up-to-date applications (servers, load balancers).

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IT Governance

APRIL 6, 2018

He created a Pastebin page detailing the vulnerability, and emailed Brian Krebs, who took up the story earlier this week. The date Under Armour published its notice? Having waited eight months for Panera to fix the flaw, Houlihan decided to publish it. 29 March – four days after discovering the breach.

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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

This week, we discuss the exposure of millions of Facebook users’ data, security failings in train passenger networks and Kaspersky Lab’s relocation to Switzerland. Here are this week’s stories. Around 40% of them opted to share data from their Facebook profile with the project. million people”. million people”.

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IT Governance

JULY 26, 2018

A ferocious summer heatwave continues to dominate the majority of the UK’s social media posts and entertainment news stories. On Facebook, Timehop shows users their popular historical posts to help rekindle old memories. While the sassy summer sunshine shines, you should be shielded in the shade for sure.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

But the real reason I’m responding is Thompson’s thesis that Google is at its peak, about to be eclipsed by Facebook or Pinterest or some other advertising-based company. We’re in the very early innings, though Facebook has been a clear winner to date. – No one has yet “won” in native.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 14, 2019

In a post to Facebook last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision of the future that includes end-to-end encryption and an ephemeral lifespan for private messages and photos. Today we already see that private messaging, ephemeral stories, and small groups are by far the fastest growing areas of online communication.”.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog. In October , Facebook admitted that the accounts of nearly 50 million users had been exposed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Exposed data include including usernames, email addresses, occupation, date of birth, profile photos, and gender-related information. The worse aspect of the story is that the company did not disclose the flaw in the Google+ when it first discovered the issue in this spring because it feared regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage.

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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

And, we published our first case law post about a case where the spoliator of data was actually threatened with jail time – our first of 701 posts about case law to date, covering more than 540 distinct cases! Here’s an evidence story that only a word geek like me can appreciate. How many states have Security Breach Notification Laws?

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Unless you live under a bottle cap rusting on the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that if you’re concerned about privacy , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the gift that keeps on taking. Facebook has had more than its share of bad press in recent years, including Russian meddling in U.S.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

92,391,296 known records breached in 222 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Key dates 31 March 2024 – PCI DSS v4.0 We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place. of the Standard.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As one Senator told me during the Facebook hearings this past summer , “we purposefully didn’t regulate technology, and that was the right thing to do.” Dating we’ve left to the governance of cultural norms, which share the power of government over much of the world. Or, Will Nature Just Shrug Its Shoulders?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 29, 2012

We talk about Facebook and whether we’re sharing too much. It quotes a study that found: … most people have no idea what the cloud is , have pretended to know what it means on first dates, and yet effectively all respondents are active cloud computing users. Who Cares?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Over the weekend, as I pondered an eMarketer report estimating Facebook's advertising revenue at $1.86 billion (seems low), I wondered to myself: When will Facebook start to drive the kind of widespread graymarket activity which proved Google's immense worth? When would Facebook become a hotbed of affiliate arbitrage across the board?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. The dating site denied that it had suffered a data breach, even though many users took to Twitter saying that someone had got into their account and changed their login credentials. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches. Marriot International was fined $123 million , or 1.5

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Those arguments have fostered serious chatter that Bartz might once again miss her Web 2 date - and this time not due to illness. Again, there's an interesting story here as it relates to content. Why would a talented engineer want to go to Yahoo instead of, say, Facebook or a startup? Yahoo's approach to social.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Over the weekend, as I pondered an eMarketer report estimating Facebook's advertising revenue at $1.86 billion (seems low), I wondered to myself: When will Facebook start to drive the kind of widespread graymarket activity which proved Google's immense worth? When would Facebook become a hotbed of affiliate arbitrage across the board?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

Publicly available data indicates that in addition to running a dizzying array of people-search websites, the co-founders of Radaris operate multiple Russian-language dating services and affiliate programs. Dmitry Lybarsky’s Facebook/Meta account says he was born in March 1963. But how much do we know about Radaris? government.

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CILIP

JUNE 15, 2021

We believe that these are stories that deserve to be heard and represented as they can provide us with insight on how we can make work environments safer for LGBTQ+ people. Jay Sullivan (JS): I joined my current organisation over 10 years ago and had already been living as Jay for several years prior to this date. m so sorry you?ve

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