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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

Later in 2018, I did the same thing with the email address search feature used by Mozilla, 1Password and a handful of other paying subscribers. The fact that SHA-1 is fast to calculate and has proven hash collision attacks against its integrity doesn't diminish the purpose it serves in protecting badly parsed data. And for what?

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