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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. I am definitely in this camp. It is now free to people in all 50 U.S.

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Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data

Adam Levin

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. It also limits the definition of “unauthorized access” to content protected behind a password or some other means of authorization. .

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. European Commission adopts cyber security certification scheme The European Commission has adopted the first European cyber security certification scheme, in line with the EU Cybersecurity Act. The statement sets out the EU and US’s shared objectives for a secure cyberspace.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. 138 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated or exposed. We’ve also found 6 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. They accessed 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors. Insights from VDOO’s leadership.

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Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data

Troy Hunt

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. Some more data points before going further: The files is named "ACUITY_MASTER_18062020.csv" It's a legitimate , honest , legal business model.

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