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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Elie

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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What did you do for European Cyber Security Month?

IT Governance

Among its suggestions are to: Change default passwords when setting up an account; Turn on automatic security updates; and. Review where you store personal data and who has access to it. We wrote several blogs throughout the month, explaining some of the biggest mistakes that lead to data breaches. Security Summit North.