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GUEST ESSAY: Stolen logons, brute force hacking get used the most to breach web, email servers

The Last Watchdog

Poor password practices are responsible for most incidents involving web applications and data breaches since 2009. Without strong, secure passwords or two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) enabled in an organization or startup, it becomes easy for attackers to access stolen credentials on their web and email servers. 2009 DBIR page 17)

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Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak

Krebs on Security

Renaud found teachers’ SSNs were accessible in the HTML source code of some Missouri education department webpages. “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. She stated in 2009, policy was changed to move all information technology services to the Office of Administration.”

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts

Security Affairs

“On October 16, 2019, Network Solutions determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of our computer systems in late August 2019, and as a result, account information may have been accessed,” reads a security breach notice. Data accessed by the hackers includes contact details (i.e.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. Intel 471 reports that gumboldt@gmail.com was used in 2009 to register a user by the nickname “ Kolumb ” on the Russian hacking forum Antichat.

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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The experts determined the threat actors had access to CDHE systems between June 11 and June 19, 2023 and copied data from the company systems during this time. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months. ” reads the Notice of Data Incident published by the company.

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Making Access Happen: NARA’s Leadership in the Digital Decade

Archives Blogs

The history of the National Archives records our longstanding commitment to the mission of preserving and providing access to the permanent records of the federal government. However, in no decade in our history have we provided greater access than in the one that is drawing to a close this month. Today we have 97 million and counting.

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