Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Never use duplicate usernames or passwords across any of your online accounts to limit your exposure in case of a data breach. Leave cash, your checkbook and your Social Security card at home (in a secure location, of course). Vary login credentials across accounts. Change passwords repeatedly. Use ATMS carefully.

Retail 97

Retail e-Delivery Passwords Phishing 97

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For one, many had defined the threat landscape too narrowly.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Risk Marketing Financial Services 68

KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. So, what does the report say about the most common threat actions that are involved in data breaches?

Data breaches 75

Data breaches Phishing Security awareness Ransomware 75

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. It's also interesting because among nearly 3k other breaches, the data contains Dropbox.

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Passwords Cleanup File names 88

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. Here are excerpts of our discussion, edited for clarity and length.

Financial Services 178

Financial Services Passwords Data breaches Authentication 178

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. The data is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

Authentication 52

Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

Authentication 52

Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. There's a caveat to this of course because they essentially elongate the use of passwords still. That's a great use case.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

Data Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2020

9 Notably, the proposed 36-hour timeline is also more accelerated than that required for similar incidents required by the New York Department of Financial Services, which requires notices be provided to the superintendent within 72 hours from determination that a cybersecurity event has occurred.

Security 68

Security Cybersecurity Insurance Communications 68

Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. In your grandfather’s data breach—e.g., All rights reserved.

Cybersecurity 97

Cybersecurity Government Authentication Ransomware 97

erwin

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Other highly regulated industries, like financial services, also face strict data privacy mandates, including those from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Data Governance Tools and Data Ethics.

Government 105

Government Data breaches Metadata GDPR 105

erwin

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Other highly regulated industries, like financial services, also face strict data privacy mandates, including those from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Data Governance Tools and Data Ethics.

Government 40

Government Data breaches Metadata GDPR 40