IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The thread on the hacking forum with the samples of alleged TikTok data has been deleted and the user banned for “lying about data breaches” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 5, 2022 "Lying about data breaches" Ugh, criminals are so untrustworthy!

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

The Measures also cover “important data,” defined as “the data that might directly affect national security, economic security, social stability and public health and security in case of disclosure, such as non-public government information, population data covering a large area, gene health data, geographic data and mining data.”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. Our current political and economic culture is, of course, a direct descendant of this living document. Data was shared laterally between sites.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” LastPass declined to answer questions about the research highlighted in this story, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation against the company in response to its 2022 data breach. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

We're happy at the keyboard, but when it comes to real human interactions, it's sometimes hard, not for everyone, of course, some of us are really good at the human side of things. You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here goes: Last week, someone reached it to me with what they claimed was a Spoutible data breach obtained by exploiting an enumerable API. " because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). There's just one more "oh wow!

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For example, organizations can re-package video libraries, songs, research, and course material for different audiences – customers, researchers, academics, students, and so on; and they can monetize the content via CaaS. Data Analytics. Of course, analyzing vast repositories of data is now possible by using AI.

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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. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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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. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And, of course the military in particular is always concerned with that and, you know, good friends of mine like Billy rails for example who most people you're probably have heard of, spend a lot of their time in classified environments, trying to figure out how to fix those issues for the government. And I said, Are you serious?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And, of course the military in particular is always concerned with that and, you know, good friends of mine like Billy rails for example who most people you're probably have heard of, spend a lot of their time in classified environments, trying to figure out how to fix those issues for the government. And I said, Are you serious?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. which increase the complexity of interactions beyond a simple storage container.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It solves the interception problem but of course the query still needs to be sent to a DNS server somewhere and at that point, the name being queried and the origin of the query (your IP address) is still visible. Because it's a plain text query, the site your client it querying is immediately observable by anyone sitting on the connection.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was most interesting, of course, were the computer connections. So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind. For the hacker mine I remain your war dialing buddy Robert from. Vamosi: The script enumerates every possible phone number in a local area, and then every possible prefix.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

And, of course, the user agent requirement was easily circumvented as I expected it would be and I simply started seeing randomised strings in the UA. In a case like What's My IP Address' Data Breach Check , we're talking about a website with a search feature that hits their endpoint and then they call HIBP on the server side.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. So why don't I do some side look why don't I use these legitimate tools so comes up in loads of applications, you know, kindly low mine hours. Macros are fantastic. So interesting.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

Anyone can cobble together a website with some APIs and load in a ton of data breaches, but establishing trust is a whole different story. Of course, I'd considered all that before making the decision to go down this path, but nothing could prepare me for the actual emotions felt once I was eyeball-deep in the M&A process.

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