Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2022

Speaking of which, because there was a lot of enthusiasm for Charlotte and I to do one together on the cultural differences we've both experienced living in different parts of the world, that'll be next week's video. Protect Salesforce data from overexposure and cyberthreats. Sponsored by: Varonis for Salesforce.

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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. References My (ISC)² award arrived!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 5, 2020

An award at an event nobody could attend, a SQL injection pattern in an HIBP email that wiped an entire DB, a disinformation campaign by "Anonymous" amidst a tumultuous time in the US and another freaking massive breach (with me in it) that I simply can't attribute. The Minneapolis Police Department hack and subsequent leak of data is.

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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. Visual aids such as graphs, charts, pictures, or videos are a quick and efficient way to convey information that might be harder to understand in text format. Visual Aids. Team Exercises.

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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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Troy Hunt

JULY 24, 2020

I did my first interview with this setup today and I think I'm actually going to be sticking with the mood lighting for most on-video events now: Fun @InfosecWhiskey interview this morning. A huge amount of research went into this but the PC, screens, cameras lights and all the other bits are working really well together.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

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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.

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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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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2019

I'm not intentionally pushing these out later than usual, but events have just been such over the last few weeks that it's worked out that way. The audio recording did work well (I mentioned in the video I wasn't sure if it was functioning correctly), and it's pretty damn good quality for what it is.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This post summarizes the practical measures that may be adopted to protect your firm against cyberattacks and the keys to successful crisis management in the event that an unauthorized data breach occurs. Impersonation of key senior personnel to remit fraudulent payment instructions via telephone and video.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This post summarizes the practical measures that may be adopted to protect your firm against cyberattacks and the keys to successful crisis management in the event that an unauthorized data breach occurs. Impersonation of key senior personnel to remit fraudulent payment instructions via telephone and video.

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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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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. STAR Labs was able to execute their improper input validation attack on their 3rd try against the Samsung Galaxy S22.

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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. The webinar takes place on 1 September 2021, from 4:00 pm.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To see if your email address has been exposed in this or other security breaches, use our personal data leak checker. What data is in the bucket? Here are some examples of the user records, videos, and images left on the exposed Snewpit bucket. Who had access to the data? Examples of exposed records.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Meanwhile, a security researcher who has previously reported vulnerabilities to Facebook has taken credit for finding this bug, and briefly threatened to delete Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account this weekend in a live video stream allegedly planned for this weekend, according to The Verge.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

This is more than just the ability to see videos faster. We can celebrate all of the advances that will occur as a result of 5G, but this high-speed, low-latency data movement also creates an acceleration of security concerns. Data security. Data Firewall. Data Breach. That is more than 9 devices per person.

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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

io ), to share videos of their claimed exploits, and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts under their control. The Visual Studio project used by the attackers included the source code for exploiting the vulnerability along with an additional DLL that would be executed through Visual Studio Build Events, which is a backdoor.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

Microsoft Defender has got everything organisations need, from monitoring user activity to stopping data leaks. As for other solutions, SIEM and SOAR are great tools [security information and event management, and security orchestration, automation and response tools]. It’s smart too, as it uses machine learning to catch threats early.

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ARMA International

APRIL 18, 2022

Enforcement of the Laws : The enforcement has been primarily focused on consumer or non-financial employee data (e.g., resumes, personnel files, video/call recordings). Organizations should be able to articulate the reason for a retention period, especially if those records include personal information or data. Conclusion.

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Archive Document Data Storage

JANUARY 2, 2018

Back Up Your Data. Predicting a disaster or data breach event is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen—or that you shouldn’t protect your data. Routine backups ensure that you have access to your data, even in the worst of circumstances. monitored video surveillance.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

However, a mistake was made by a Wyze employee on December 4th when they were using this database and the previous security protocols for this data were removed. We are still looking into this event to figure out why and how this happened.” “We were first contacted through a support ticket at 9:21 a.m.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tickets to entertainment events is one example of sniping, the same thing happens when other products launch with insufficient supply to meet demand, for example Nike shoes. But there's an indicator that's very easy to cross-check, and that's the occurrence of the email address in previous data breaches.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Reputations tend to color the way we read events. And finally, reputation management in the day and age of near-constant compromise and breach requires transparency–or at least the perception of transparency. Put simply, companies can make themselves harder to hit by hackers, and less prone to compromise.

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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. ", they'll claim.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More niche examples of doxing include: Breach Doxing : the unintentional dropping of documents via a data breach or leak. Personal details about users – whether inadvertently available on social media or through a data breach on a long inactive account – are everywhere, giving persistent threat actors plenty to utilize.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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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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