The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches.

Cybersecurity 214

Cybersecurity Security awareness Passwords Data breaches 214

Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

Cloud 274

Cloud Education Government Phishing 274

Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

“We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog. “The timer it [sic] ticking and in in next 8 hours your price tag will go up to $60 million,” the crooks replied.

Ransomware 363

Ransomware Encryption Data breaches Government 363

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Passwords Sales IT 145

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. I've written extensively about how HIBP has grown over the years and doing so has been a cornerstone of the philosophy of how I've run the service - with maximum transparency.

Government 74

Government Passwords Data breaches Authentication 74

Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

Data breaches 72

Data breaches Passwords Government IT 72

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Part 2 will discuss the critical factors for a successful DT journey, because organizations need to do a “mind-shift” from traditional records and information management (RIM) practices to content services (CS).

Digital transformation 59

Digital transformation Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics 59