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

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. In one of Sophos’ case studies, three prominent ransomware gangs — Hive, LockBit and BlackCat — attacked the same network, one after the other. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm.

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Information Disaster Plan

The Texas Record

For e.g. Information on paper is secure based on papers longevity. Paper records lasts hundreds of years, if not thousands. However, paper records must be protected from water damage, sunlight, and on-site storage security risk. Is the information stored on a printed physical record, electronically, on a CD, microfilm?

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market. .

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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. For example, did you know that 77% of UK workers don’t receive cyber skills training and 23 million people use ‘123456’ as their password ? Review where you store personal data and who has access to it.