eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

A hacker who recently offered 700 million LinkedIn records for sale alarmed LinkedIn users and security specialists, but the company insists the data is linked to previously reported scraped data and wasn’t hacked. As reports have stated, this is likely scraped instead of a breach.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While some are harmless API keys, others could lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, or identity theft, the latest Cybernews research reveals. Cybernews Researchers pulled a staggering number of 191,529 secrets by scraping and analyzing 5,493 publicly shared container images. What were the web apps leaking?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. The apparent breach at St.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2020

When the researchers tried to contact the organisation, they learned that it was no longer in business and were directed instead to a Hong Kong-based company called Social Data. Although Social Data denied having any connection to Deep Social, it did acknowledge the breach and was able to secure the exposed database with a password.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 20, 2022

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,243 security incidents in 2021, which accounted for 5,126,930,507 breached records. How security incidents occurred.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2023

A week later – after presumably being rebuffed by Twitter – the hacker put the data up for sale on the hacking forum Breached. A week later – after presumably being rebuffed by Twitter – the hacker put the data up for sale on the hacking forum Breached. Where did the data come from? million users’ data up for sale.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

27, 2023 — Citing organized crime statutes, attorneys with Wisner Baum have filed the first RICO class action alleging that H&R Block, Meta, and Google jointly schemed to install spyware on the H&R Block site, scraping customers’ private tax return information for profit. Los Angeles, Calif.,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the breach shows the service has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to distribute the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other titles.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The latest news reports claim that the cause of the data breach has been identified by a RiskIQ researcher, who has analysed the code from BA’s website and app. They say that there is evidence of a “skimming” script designed to scrape data from online payment forms. 92% of UK organisations breached.

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Data breaches GDPR Retail Risk 94

IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. IT Governance discovered 377 security incidents between April and June 2021, which accounted for 1,224,539,395 breached records. This represents a 7.4%

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Data breaches Retail Ransomware Government 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My wife and I deliberated, and eventually agreed on condition that he wore a helmet – as he does when he cycles with the family. My wife and I deliberated, and eventually agreed on condition that he wore a helmet – as he does when he cycles with the family. Data breaches, brand damage and financial reputation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

The databases also contain internal data, such as the type of LinkedIn subscription a circumstance that suggests that the source could be a data breach. “Included in the profile was also my email address that I used when registering my LinkedIn account. Finally, the database was no more accessible likely because it was secured.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where IPv6 is the next big thing. How does an IPv6 Proxy work? What Is A Proxy? How Do Proxies Work?

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

hiQ Labs is a data analytics company that scrapes publicly accessible LinkedIn user profiles and analyzes that information for its customers, either by summarizing their workforce’s skill set or identifying those employees most likely to leave. LinkedIn.com has a user agreement that forbids scraping. But the U.S. LinkedIn Corp.,

Access 68

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2023

million (for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service).” The company claimed that the updates aimed at improving the security end the service, but it clearly breached the GDPR. ” reads the DPC’s announcement. ” continues the announcement. ” WhatsApp announced that it will appeal the fine.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

MajikPOS PoS malware was first spotted by Trend Micro in early 2017, when it was used to target businesses in North America and Canada. Treasure Hunter is a POS malware that was first spotted in 2014, it supports RAM scraping capability and its initial kill chain phases are similar to MajikPOS. MajikPOS is written using the “.NET

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 9 December 2023, the European Parliament (the Parliament) and the Council of the EU (the Council) reached an agreement on the outstanding points on the EU’s Regulation on artificial intelligence (AI Act). Definitions and scope The final text will define AI with reference to the OECD definition.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) reported that at least three attacks took place this summer, crooks aimed at infecting the PoS systems with malware to scrape payment card data. “The malware used in the [second] attack also created a temporary output file, wmsetup.tmp , which was used to house the scraped payment data. .

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 9, 2022

uthors: Ewa Kurowska-Tober , Andrew Serwin , John Magee and Madison Swoy. A trio of forthcoming decisions against tech giant Meta may signal the end for Meta’s targeted ads model, though the issue is likely to rumble on for some time.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 15, 2023

On June 14, 2023, the European Parliament (“EP”) approved its negotiating mandate (the “EP’s Position”) regarding the EU’s Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (the “AI Act”). The final version of the AI Act is expected before the end of 2023.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The monetizing method varied depending on the company but was highly aggressive with a tight timeline between the initial breach and the disruptive cashout scheme.” ” When the victim provided their data through the phishing site, including 2FA or OTP, the attackers used it in real-time to gain access to the corporate account.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The Principles are targeted to so-called “data aggregation” or “screen scraping” services that collect customer information in order to provide financial planning or other services. Screen scraping does not involve a formal data-sharing agreement with the bank, and it therefore raises significant concerns from all parties involved.

Financial Services 60

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here goes: Last week, someone reached it to me with what they claimed was a Spoutible data breach obtained by exploiting an enumerable API. Just your classic case of putting someone else's username in the URL and getting back data about them, which at first glance I assumed was another scraping situation like we recently saw with Trello.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I like to think of investigating data breaches as a sort of scientific search for truth. Verification that supports the alleged source is usually quite straightforward , but disproving a claim can be a rather time consuming exercise, especially when a dataset contains fragments of truth mixed in with data that is anything but.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When cybercriminals are the first to discover these missteps, usually the outcome is a demand for money in return for the stolen data. when I received a phone call from Vinny Troia , a security researcher who runs a startup in Missouri called NightLion Security. Last week, I was on a train from New York to Washington, D.C.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

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. emails to those monitoring domains after a breach has occurred. That's massive! Like, possibly almost a decade ag.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2013

In practice, organizations tend to focus more on their compliance obligations with respect to more established forms of online media, such as corporate websites, than they do when it comes to new media. Application of the Data Protection Act 1998. The ICO’s expectations in terms of “reasonable steps” will depend on the circumstances.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects. KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The archive included 650 million unique email addresses, the data belonging the three different PDL indexes were respectively scraped from LinkedIN (i.e. ” “When I checked my account on PeopleDataLabs.com, the returned results were identical – including that phone number. ” reads the post published by the experts.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

When alerted to potential vulnerabilities, patch promptly. Users sometimes unknowingly infect themselves with adware installed by default when they download and install other applications. If needed, company personnel or law enforcement can use the backdoor to access the system when needed. How to Defend Against Adware.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 3, 2020

Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach which, after posting that blog post and a sample of my own data, the community quickly attributed to Covve. The physical address is one I haven't lived at in almost 5 years and the WHOIS record was kept pretty accurate so I'm assuming this was scraped 4+ years ago.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches B2B Personal data Marketing 145

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information.

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses. Data breached: 35,500,000 records. Data breached: 10,870,524 lines. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached.

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Data Matters

MAY 13, 2019

Your website is essential to your online business. By developing and presenting an online presence, however, you take on legal obligations to your users. It is, therefore, a timely exercise to stop and take stock of your terms and conditions in light of recent developments in the law, consumer expectations, and your legal risk profile.

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