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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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Weekly Update 215

Troy Hunt

Sponsored by: Make pwned passwords a thing of the past with safepass.me It was a bit of a slow start this week. Plan A" was to use the new GoPro with the Media Mod (including light and lapel mic) and do an outdoor session. and pwncheck.

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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

Sophos’ report shares findings from four separate ransomware attacks which took place within days or weeks of each other, and, in one case, simultaneously. In one of Sophos’ case studies, three prominent ransomware gangs — Hive, LockBit and BlackCat — attacked the same network, one after the other. Shier is spot on.

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

.” Clearly, the FBI and CISA focus on attacks against organizations in the United States, they proposed as case studies the attacks against Colonial Pipeline , JBS , and Kaseya. based critical infrastructure entity in the Energy Sector, resulting in a week-long suspension of operations. ” reads the joint alert.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 258

Security Affairs

addresses two zero-days exploited in the wild Microsofts case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Information Disaster Plan

The Texas Record

Information to ensure operations function; Information affiliated with your relationships with stakeholders; Information with ties to a legal or regulatory requirement; Information about employees, customers, or the general public; or Passwords. Creation and maintenance of an information management disaster plan is a never-ending task.

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5 best online cyber security training courses and certifications in 2020

IT Governance

To help you on your way, we have made a number of our courses available remotely, enabling you to study from the comfort of your own home and without jeopardising your health. You’ll learn about topics such as malware, social engineering, phishing, password security and remote working, providing you with complete cyber security coverage.