IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Data breaches don’t just occur when cyber criminals hack your systems, and it’s as well to remember that sensitive information in all forms – including hard copy records – should be afforded appropriate protection. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. They can use it to trace online activity , find attached accounts and uncover personal data.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I'm doing a quick snapshot on how we're travelling down here COVID wise, I lament the demise (followed by resurrection) of my Ubiquiti network, there's a heap of new data breaches in HIBP and a bunch more insight into my guitar lessons (no, I'm not giving guitar lessons!)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware Synology fixes multiple critical vulnerabilities in its routers Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack BitRAT campaign relies on stolen sensitive bank data as a lure Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. ” reads the announcement published by the UK NCA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over 10,000 data breaches.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches. across the internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

builder Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign Hackers stole $160 Million from Crypto market maker Wintermute U.S. gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

ransomware gang BlackMatter ransomware also targets VMware ESXi servers Conti ransomware affiliate leaked gang’s training material and tools Conti Leak Indicators – What to block, in your SOC….

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Data Matters

MAY 4, 2021

Many companies hope to benefit from amassing large amounts of data by mining it for market insights, creating internal business models, and supporting strategic, data-driven decisions. One way that businesses can mitigate these risks is to de-identify the data they collect and store. litigation discovery obligations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

The FBI will share compromised passwords that were discovered during investigations with the ‘ Pwned Passwords ‘ service implemented by the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). ” reads the post published by Hunt.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 26, 2020

All that, the usual data breach stuff and more in this week's update. Installs in 5 minutes. Protects forever.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records. They accessed 41.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. ” In May, GoDaddy notified its customers of a data breach, threat actors might have compromised their web hosting account credentials.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Allegedly, Acuity had a data breach. That's the context that accompanied a massive trove of data that was sent to me 2 years ago now. One of the first things I do after receiving a data breach is to literally just Google it: acuity data breach. And the column names line up!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a little more investigation, I found two browser extensions that were crypto mining, which fortunately uninstalled without a problem. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). At dinner, we had “the talk” about safe computing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

To make matters worse, a majority of the information in that credit report is not mine. As it stands, using Kushnir’s exploit was the only time I’ve ever been able to get Experian’s website to cough up a copy of my credit report. So I’ve got that to look forward to.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. According to the researchers, the data breach has occurred in May 2020 and the data was published on May 25.

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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. Now I know why Experian has NEVER let me view my own file via their website.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Looked at another way, there’s a 90% chance that most financial services organizations will have two data breaches between now and then.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The records exposed by First American would have been a virtual gold mine for phishers and scammers involved in so-called Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, which often impersonate real estate agents, closing agencies, title and escrow firms in a bid to trick property buyers into wiring funds to fraudsters.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2019

card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. THOMPSON used this access not only to steal data, but also used stolen computer power to “mine” cryptocurrency for her own benefit, a practice known as “ cryptojacking.””

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This week, we discuss a data breach at Mumsnet, no data breach at OkCupid, and a lawsuit against Apple for implementing security measures. The parenting forum Mumsnet has notified users of a data breach after a system update resulted in some account holders being signed in to others’ accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. This makes the Cloud an appealing target to cyber criminals, who can take advantage of organisations that store their data on the Cloud but fail to stipulate where and how they would like it stored.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. Most concerningly, the leaked data seems to include national identification numbers and unique taxpayer numbers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. experienced a data breach several years back, and according to Apollo the email address ownagegaming1@gmail.com belongs to Jordan Bloom in Ontario. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. Since in Tech we often travel “for a living”, I found in my bag an older Starwood preferred guest card. This had me asking a simple question – Why? Doing the math perhaps?

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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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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. It was a paltry $24.

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