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

Elie

million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9 billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account.

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Google's Data on Login Thefts

Schneier on Security

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. billion credentials exposed by third-party breaches. The report.

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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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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. Using strong passwords. The Joint report provides the following recommendations to the organizations: Making an offline backup of your data.

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5 best online cyber security training courses and certifications in 2020

IT Governance

This one-day course is designed and run by real-world practitioners, who help you gain an understanding of risks through practical exercises, group discussions and case studies. The course also comes with monthly security updates to help you stay on top of the latest phishing and ransomware scams. One virus is enough.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Phishing and Social Engineering.

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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.