Troy Hunt

AUGUST 10, 2019

The personal engagement you get from these ad hoc meetups really can't be beat and I appreciate everyone who took the time to come over and say hi. Just a sample of our week is below: Approaching a week of @BSidesLV , @BlackHatEvents and @defcon. Three conferences, tens of thousands of people and 44C temps. This’ll be interesting.

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Data breaches Passwords IT Security 58

eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

In total, 170 public and private sector partners have made 121 tools available for free on the site to decrypt 151 ransomware families. As Europol celebrated the fifth anniversary of its anti-ransomware initiative this week, menacing new ransomware threats made it clear that the fight against cyber threats is never-ending.

Ransomware 108

Ransomware Computer and Electronics Archiving Encryption 108

IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

TuneFab also left a large database exposed, containing more than 151 million data records, which a different security researcher discovered. We will update this if more information on the Europol action is released. This was largely due to the Real Estate Wealth Network breach.

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Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Ransomware 97

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

TuneFab exposes more than 151 million records via misconfigured database TuneFab – a platform that converts music from popular streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Audible, to other formats – has exposed more than 151 million data records, including users’ IP addresses, user area, user IDs, emails and device information.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, in which 71 people died when 151 homes were destroyed by fire in June 2017, there were calls for empty properties in the borough to be requisitioned to provide housing for those displaced by the fire. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 20 April 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

Personal data 66

Personal data Government Manufacturing Information Security 66

Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

This means you have to update DNS to point to somewhere that hasn't yet had that name bound before you can bind the name, get it? for you guys to do 54M searches against a repository of half a billion passwords ?? pic.twitter.com/WPez1SXYmD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 27, 2018.

Passwords 51

Passwords IT Mining Authentication 51