Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

Prosecutors said it had indexed, searchable information from more than 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records — including names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. The report contains so many errors that it’s probably going to take a good deal of effort on my part to straighten out.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But that ridiculous example is nothing compared to the amount of traction some misattributions get. Remember how just recently a couple of billion TikTok accounts had been "breached"? For example, the sort of data requested when filling out dodgy online competitions. This made massive news headlines until.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Massive data base breaches today generally follow a distinctive pattern: hack into a client -facing application; manipulate an API; follow the data flow to gain access to an overly permissive database or S3 bucket (cloud storage). A classic example of this type of intrusion is the Capital One data breach.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 15, 2020

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I know: Back in Feb, Dehashed reached out to me with a massive trove of data that had been left exposed on a major cloud provider via a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rising implementations of cloud services and IoT systems, not to mention the arrival of 5G, has quickened the pace of software development and multiplied data handling complexities. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches. Take PowerShell-enabled breaches, for instance.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

My congressional testimony in the US was a very public example of that, less so are the dozens of conversations I've had in all sorts of settings including during conferences, workshops and over coffees and beers. For example, the UK government can query any.gov.uk This post talks about how I'm addressing that. domain on demand.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” CDPs apply specialized technologies and pre-built processes that are tailored precisely to meet marketing data needs.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

But this is a tricky area to navigate, particularly following the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), since both the ICO and the FCA have started to pay more attention to this area.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources. Fortunately, application layer encryption (ALE) and other types of current encryption solutions can be purchased to add protection to internal or external AI data modeling.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. So you've got auto scaling groups, or like virtual machines and kind of easy to use this as an example, your containerization as well instead of list environments, where again, you're only kind of using the resources you need.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For example, the researchers said their methodology identified a recent multi-million dollar crypto heist victim as an employee at Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis firm that works closely with law enforcement agencies to help track down cybercriminals and money launderers. .”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For example, another important default setting in LastPass is the number of “iterations,” or how many times your master password is run through the company’s encryption routines.

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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).

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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. So, maybe a concrete real world example is needed.

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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. So, maybe a concrete real world example is needed.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

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. Daniel: Due to some labor disputes, and, you know, mining, even open pit mining, is a rough job. For example, The Beatles’ “Revolution” was a b-side.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

Widely derided as the consummate example of inefficiency, government agencies around the world are transforming their services and ultimately its perception by the public with the adoption of new technology and platforms. Big transformation of big government. Transformation goes on overdrive with COVID-19.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Related: The case for a microservices firewall Netflix and Airbnb are prime examples of companies moving to single-page applications, or SPAs , in order to make their browser webpages as responsive as their mobile apps. Data breach disclosure laws in effect across 47 U.S. It just keeps happening over and over again,” he says.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Vamosi: Here’s a good example. There are’s a lot to unpack here.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Vamosi: Here’s a good example. There are’s a lot to unpack here.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Examples include baiting, pretexting, and impersonation. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies. In either case, preparation is critical.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

The capabilities of these features will also vary, with some products able to classify files and others only adding classifications to the data extracted from the files. For perspective on what this might mean consider the following examples: AWS Offers an add-on service: Amazon Macie.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Well, per the earlier ANZ example the initial request from the browser is still almost always sent insecurely over HTTP so everyone along the way not only sees where the traffic is going, but can also read and modify the contents of it so again, from a privacy perspective, not good. With the DNS dance done, what's the impact on privacy then?

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. Let me illustrate by example: in January this year, I loaded a rather large breach into HIBP: New scraped data: Twitter had over 200M accounts scraped from a vulnerable API in 2021.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 24, 2023

For example, 99% of organizations surveyed by McKinsey said they have pursued a large-scale technology transformation since 2020. It aims to understand what’s happening within a system by studying external data. Examples of APM include identifying slow-loading web pages, transaction processing times and latency issues.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Vamosi: The war dialing example at the beginning, hanging up when the other end answers would be more like a Surface Scan or a port scan, where you just check to see if the port is open. For example, for the IAS research I mentioned before scanning port 80 was sufficient because like most IIS servers will listen on port 80.

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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. Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. Microsoft, we're using them as the example in windows they love their backwards compatibility.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

I was always really hesitant to do this, but when 90% of the API traffic was suddenly coming from a country in West Africa, for example, that was a pretty quick win. Often this was due to simply not meeting the API requirements, for example providing a descriptive UA string.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

My views are shaped by a life that's very public due to the nature of what I do and as such, my kids receive more exposure than most (the picture above, for example). For example, my son teaching kids to code in London a couple of weeks ago: Teaching kids to code at #NDCLondon with @CodeCombat. They can't change their passcodes.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, I was regularly asked if I'd ever received any legal threats which is apparently pretty normal for any M&A process, but you can imagine why it'd be particularly interesting when dealing with a heap of data originally obtained via illegal methods. of the company.

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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 3, 2021

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. Gab's approach.

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