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A Brief History of Phishing, and Other Forms of Social Engineering

KnowBe4

Social engineering attacks have a very long history, though the Internet has made it easier to launch these attacks en masse, according to Sean McNee at DomainTools. McNee points to an advance-fee scam from 1924, in which a crook sent a letter pretending to be trapped in a Spanish debtors prison.

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Twitter Warns API Flaw Abuse May Have Unmasked Users

Data Breach Today

State-Sponsored Actors' Might Be Behind Move to Map Phone Numbers to Accounts Twitter says it has fixed an API problem that would have allowed someone to match phone numbers en masse to a corresponding account, which could potentially unmask anonymous users.

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FIRESIDE CHAT: Outrageous phone bills stun businesses targeted for ‘SMS toll fraud’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Countering Putin’s weaponizing of ransomware The fraudsters set themselves up as “affiliates” of phone companies in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam and then use bots to apply for online accounts, en masse, at a targeted business. For a full drill down on our discussion, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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Hacker hijacked Orange Spain RIPE account causing internet outage to company customers

Security Affairs

NOTA: La cuenta de Orange en el centro de coordinación de redes IP (RIPE) ha sufrido un acceso indebido que ha afectando a la navegación de algunos de nuestros clientes. The customers of the company were not able to access the internet for several hours on January 3 as a result of the attack.

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Weekly Update 384

Troy Hunt

To add some more perspective, I've just posted a poll immediately before publishing this blog post, let's see what the masses have to say: Scraping: should we be concerned if an individual's personal data is scraped, aggregated en mass and redistributed if that same data is already publicly accessible on the service anyway?

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Major blackouts across Puerto Rico. Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

Security Affairs

Se ha reportado un fuego significativo en la subestación Monacillos. El fuego provocó apagones significativos en toda la isla. LUMA descubrió un ataque de denegación de servicio distribuido (DDoS, por sus siglas en inglés) dirigido al portal de clientes y la aplicación móvil Mi LUMA. ” reported NPR. .

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Data of over a million users of the crypto exchange GokuMarket exposed

Security Affairs

While individual user data may be exploited to target exposed users on other platforms through credential stuffing attacks, admin access details open up far nastier cans of worms, with attackers gaining the ability to scam en-masse, with the risk of unauthorized fund transfer. Do you want to know more about the impact of this data leak?

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