Data Breach Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

Trojanized Apps Impersonate Signal and Telegram Hackers aligned with Chinese interests are targeting Android users with fake chat apps Trojanized with espionage capabilities in separate and ongoing campaigns, one active since July 2020 and the other for more than 12 months.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Consumer reports received since January 2020 revealed that that approximately $12 million were lost due to Coronavirus-related scams, FTC says. Federal Trade Commission revealed that Coronavirus-related scams reported by consumers since January 2020 caused approximately $12 million losses. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So it is my pleasure to bring to you this special Best Of 2020 episode where we hear excerpts from many of the interviews we've done over the past 12 months - a sampling of the great guests featured on the show this year. Mike was our most popular interview in 2020. We discuss his best-selling book, "The First Light of Day."

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from February 1 to March 15, 2020. February 1, 2020 – Crooks start exploiting Coronavirus as bait to spread malware. February 25, 2020 – South Korea suffers from the spread of people infected with Corona 19. ‘ Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The newly discovered malware uses GitHub and Pastebin to house component code, and harbors 12 different initial attack vectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the CVE-2020-0796 Windows flaw, tracked as SMBGhost, that can be exploited for local privilege escalation. We've just finished our first internet wide scan for CVE-2020-0796 and have identified 48000 vulnerable hosts. — Kryptos Logic (@kryptoslogic) March 12, 2020.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. To our collective knowledge, no credible evidence has been put forth that supports a conclusion that the 2020 election outcome in any state has been altered through technical compromise.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the US for his role in a hacking scheme against the telecom giant AT&T. The Pakistani national Muhammad Fahd (35) was sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his primary role in a seven-year scheme to illegally unlock nearly 2 million AT&T phones.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Top 12 best practices for cloud security. The fourth biggest threat to public cloud security identified in CloudPassage’s report is unauthorized access (and growing – 53 percent, up from 42 percent in 2020). The post Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Enable security logs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

Microsoft released security updates to fix a recently disclosed CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be abused by wormable malware. Microsoft has released security updates to address the CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be exploited by vxers to implement “ wormable ” malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 19 to April 25, 2020. Researchers at Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in COVID19-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. Coronavirus-themed attacks April 05 – April 11, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Early June, researchers at F5 Networks have addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product. The CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability received a CVSS score of 10, this means that is quite easy to exploit.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 8, 2020

Over the next 12 months, OpenText customers can expect many new innovations designed to make work easier, faster and smarter than ever. These technologies will help our customers to collaborate more easily, remove repetitive tasks, devote … The post What to expect from OpenText in 2020 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It’s hard to summarise 2020 without resorting to cliché, considering that our experiences have been so universal and subject to such little variety. These figures dwarf last year’s totals and show that criminal hackers were one of the few winners of 2020. What a simple time January 2020 was. Unprecedented. Challenging.

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Adapture

AUGUST 12, 2020

ADAPTURE Ranks on the 2020 Inc. 5000 Marking Third Consecutive Year on the List ATLANTA, August 12, 2020 – Inc. magazine today revealed that ADAPTURE has placed on its 2020 Inc. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within [ ] The post ADAPTURE Ranks on the 2020 Inc.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The 2020 Cybersecurity Landscape – Below Pierluigi Paganini’s cybersecurity predictions for the next twelve months. Let’s try to imagine what threats and bad actors will influence the cyber arena in the next 12 months. Let’s try to imagine what threats and bad actors will influence the cyber arena in the next 12 months.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from May 10 to May 16, 2020. May 12 – Zeus Sphinx continues to be used in COVID-19-themed attacks. If you are interested in COVID19-themed attacks from February 1 give a look at the following posts: Coronavirus-themed attacks April 19 – April 25, 2020.

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Info Source

OCTOBER 21, 2020

20, 2020 – PSIGEN, provider of business automation and digital transformation technology that allows you to work the way you want, announced the release of. With PSIsafe 12’s advanced search functionality, knowledge workers can instantly retrieve documents by searching multiple keywords as well as ranges of numbers and dates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

” Improper Access Control follows XSS in the list of most awarded vulnerability type in 2020, experts observed an increase of 134% in occurrence compared to 2019. million paid within a 12-month. bug bounties for XSS flaws in 2020 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Companies paid $4.2M

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IG Guru

APRIL 27, 2020

ACEDS lists at least 12 webinars and webcasts for this Spring here. The post ACEDS Spring 2020 Webinar Available appeared first on IG GURU.

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Info Source

JANUARY 20, 2021

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 17, 2020

On March 12, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released its annual inspection strategy for 2020. Further, on January 14, 2020, the CNIL published draft recommendations on the practical modalities for obtaining users’ consent to store or read non-essential cookies and similar technologies on their devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Below a list of the most severe issues fixed by Microsoft with May 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates: – CVE-2020-1071 – Windows Remote Access Common Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability – An attacker could exploit the bug in the Remote Access Common Dialog to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

In February 2020, the FCC put all four wireless providers on notice that their practices of sharing access to customer location data were likely violating the law. The FCC fined Sprint and T-Mobile $12 million and $80 million respectively. AT&T was fined more than $57 million, while Verizon received a $47 million penalty.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2020

11’s Patch Tuesday was CVE-2020-1464 , a problem with the way every supported version of Windows validates digital signatures for computer programs. In fact, CVE-2020-1464 was first spotted in attacks used in the wild back in August 2018. ” Update, 12:45 a.m. One of the 120 security holes Microsoft fixed on Aug.

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Rocket Software

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Join Rocket CEO Andy Youniss and executives from IBM, Broadcom and VirtualZ Computing on November 12 for a diversity, inclusion and equity webinar inspired by a question to mainframe leaders: “What are you doing about it?” Nov 12, 2020 11:00 AM in Central Time (US and Canada). Register today!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Microsoft February 2020 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 99 new vulnerabilities, including an Internet Explorer zero-day exploited in the wild. In January, Microsoft has published a security advisory ( ADV200001 ) that includes mitigations for the CVE-2020-0674 zero-day remote code execution (RCE) flaw. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We also explain why you should be careful if you receive an email telling you to complete a staff awareness training course, and discuss a new SMS scam that offers you an iPhone 12. According to Tessian, organisations are right to be concerned, with phishing attacks increasing by 27% between March and July 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The updated Grandoreiro Malware equipped with latenbot-C2 features in Q2 2020 now extended to Portuguese banks. During April and May 2020, a new Grandoreiro variant was identified. The Grandoreiro malware has been distributed via malscan campaigns around the globe during Q2 2020. 100:51224/$rdgate? 100:51224/$rdgate?ACTION=x

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eDiscovery Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Key Insight: The court granted defendant’s motion to compel the minor plaintiff to sign authorizations to obtain her social media information. “[D]efendant D]efendant demonstrated that records from [plaintiff’s] Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram accounts were ‘reasonably likely to yield relevant evidence.’”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Singapore, 09/18/2020 — Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, evidenced the transformation of the threat portfolio over the first half of 2020. The post Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Adapture

AUGUST 12, 2020

ADAPTURE Ranks on the 2020 Inc. ATLANTA, August 12, 2020 – Inc. magazine today revealed that ADAPTURE has placed on its 2020 Inc. Not only have the companies on the 2020 Inc. The 2020 Inc. 5000 event honoring the companies on the list will be held virtually from October 23 to 27, 2020. The 2020 Inc.

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