Troy Hunt

AUGUST 12, 2022

So yes, I took a shortcut with the description of this video, but it all worked out well in the end IMHO with plenty of content that wasn't entirely data breach related, but yeah, that does seem to be a bit of a recurring theme in these vids. Check out our manifesto: Honest Security.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The big excitement for me was that Ubiquiti doorbell and whilst that might seem like a small thing, I'm absolutely loving it and the ability to answer it from anywhere whilst also integrating it into Home Assistant and triggering events like Sonos text to speech is really cool. Sponsored by: Orca Security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to one report , 82% of data breaches involved the human element, from social attacks to misuse of technologies. Due to the increasing use of digital tools for business operations and reliance on employee conduct to ensure security, new solutions are required. Visual Aids.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 23, 2019

The European Data Protection Board ( “EDPB” ) has published guidelines on the processing of personal data through video devices (the “ Guidelines “) (currently subject to a public consultation process). technical and organisational measures required for such data processing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the previous weeks: March 18 – China-linked threat actors are targeting the government of Ukraine. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

We’ve looked at sources such as IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report , Verizon’s 2023 DBIR (Data Breaches and Investigations Report) and Proofpoint’s The State of Phishing report , and found 50 essential stats to reveal the threat that phishing plays – plus we have an extra statistic to explain how you can prevent attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Cybernews has found an exposed data bucket that belongs to the Australian news sharing platform Snewpit containing around 80,000 user records. The CyberNews investigations team discovered an exposed data bucket that belongs to Snewpit, an Australian news sharing platform. What data is in the bucket? Who had access to the data?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

Preventing data breaches. Employee monitoring software not only helps track productivity and the possibility of data being misappropriated but also helps your cyber security team spot poor cyber security practices that could result in cyber attacks. Addressing technical vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2022

White hat hackers that participated in the competition hacked the Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone twice during the first day of the hacking competition, the 10th edition of the consumer-focused event. Samsung S22 hacked appeared first on Security Affairs. They earn $50K and 5 Master of Pwn points. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. Impersonation of key senior personnel to remit fraudulent payment instructions via telephone and video. Data privacy issues: Cyberattacks often involve identity theft.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Regulators worldwide, including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, have issued guidelines for reducing and mitigating hacking risks. Impersonation of key senior personnel to remit fraudulent payment instructions via telephone and video. Data privacy issues: Cyberattacks often involve identity theft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The leak was reported to Wyze on December 26th at around 10:00 AM and the company immediately secured the database and launched an investigation. “Today, we are confirming that some Wyze user data was not properly secured and left exposed from December 4th to December 26th.” SecurityAffairs – data leak, hacking).

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Scott and I were at NDC Sydney doing a bunch of talks and other events and I just simply didn't get time to push this out until sitting at the airport waiting for the plan home. Better video, better audio and some questions asked in the process too. Better video, better audio and some questions asked in the process too.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

How networks have evolved and how to secure them Adam Seamons is the information security manager of GRC International Group PLC, after more than 15 years’ experience working as a systems engineer and in technical support. What trends in network security have you noticed recently? You say “traditional” security.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 17, 2019

Seriously, the Denver situation was just an absolute mess but when looking at the video from the day I was meant to fly in, maybe being stuck in LA wasn't such a bad thing after all: As of 1:30 p.m., Well that was a hell of a week of travel. all runways are closed, but the terminal & concourses are open.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

This is more than just the ability to see videos faster. There is, however a seriousness consideration to this new technology; data security. Where should data security be assigned? Who should hold the responsibility of ensuring the data is secure? It is fundamentally different in its design.

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Archive Document Data Storage

JANUARY 2, 2018

2018 is here, and it’s time to revisit your data security strategy. Setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) for secure, remote access to network applications. Back Up Your Data. Routine backups ensure that you have access to your data, even in the worst of circumstances. Design a Secure Destruction Plan.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

By Rick Clark and Jacob Hesse 2023 was an eventful year in the world of legal technology, with new technology emerging to address both traditional and new challenges legal teams face when collecting, processing, and reviewing data for litigation, investigations, or public access requests.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2019

It's also another one with a bunch of other things in common with last week, namely commentary on yet more data breaches. It's not just the breaches in HIBP, but the ones I'm busily trying to disclose. That's the second update in a row I've done on time!

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 25, 2019

it's time to head off to other events again. On the infosec side of things, there's a a bunch of HTTPS related content this week plus a couple of (really) sensitive data breaches. Free Video Course: 7 Hidden Office 365 Security Settings You Can Only Unlock with PowerShell. Which means.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

the Japanese video game company known for Street Fighter and Resident Evil, has confirmed the compromise of personally identifiable information (PII) associated with over 350,000 customers, business partners, and employees of the gaming giant. The data was exfiltrated in a ransomware attack. .

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Interactive Information Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In light of this week's LexisNexis Data Breach report, it's worthwhile to explore the true value and usefulness of this kind of data that might be stolen from you. However, a person's "Unique Identity" is not simply this data, but also the context around this data, and its derivatives (or "information packages").

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What happens if someone obtains, say, my fingerprint just like they may obtain my password in a data breach or a phishing attack? Very simple - data breaches, phishing, shoulder-surfing and in many cases, simply guessing. I'll also go backwards and forward between my iPhone and iPad with Face ID. because you can.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. The company has also used security information for advertising in the past.). Reputations tend to color the way we read events.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. 🤣", the internet quipped.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 4, 2023

The goal of ITAM is to ensure that an organization’s IT assets are being used effectively, efficiently and securely while minimizing costs and reducing the risk of data breaches and other security incidents. See the Top IT Asset Management (ITAM) Tools for Security Why is ITAM Important?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Today, doxing continues to be an intimidating prospect for digital users and is a mainstream data security problem. The list of tactics, techniques , and procedures (TTP) used by threat actors to gain another user’s data is extensive. Users should conduct regular audits of publicly available data about themselves.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. You want to see if they can penetrate your security, and cause it to break in some way. I mean really?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. You want to see if they can penetrate your security, and cause it to break in some way. I mean really?

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

closed or ia idk | BLM (@pjnkmin) May 31, 2020 Just to be clear: there's not necessarily a direct link between whoever put the video above together and the data now doing the rounds and attribution is tricky once you get a bunch of different people under different accounts and pseudonyms all flying the "Anonymous" banner.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

Probably with my 2018 events page which lists everything I did of a public nature. What it doesn't do is list all the private events which pretty dramatically increases that list. epidev #security #emvpbuzz pic.twitter.com/6MFRK3c0mC — Henrik Fransas (@HenrikFransas) March 12, 2018. troyhunt ’s talk on security!

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 23, 2023

The average cost of a data breach is USD 4.35 million, and 83% of organizations have had more than one breach (of which 45% occur in the cloud). With these increases in the frequency and costs data breaches, an enterprise’s data protection and privacy in the cloud is more important than ever.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. Security researchers are jailbreaking large language models to get around safety rules. Soon, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI had GPT-4 spouting homophobic statements, creating phishing emails, and supporting violence." Did you know?

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