Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S. But Reuters found that while Pushwoosh’s social media and U.S.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Whether it’s infected emails stealing employee access credentials or the plague of r a nsomware that has menaced the business world in recent years, there are a number of ways malware can disrupt your organization. If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Data apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. "Have I been pwned?"

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The most common way for criminals to infect an organization is by sending an email with a malicious link or attachment that an employee clicks on unwittingly to initiate an attack. These may be emails sent to millions of potential victims or targeted emails sent to a specific person in a particular organization. Spam Filter.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. Let me explain why and how.

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