Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. newversion file extension instead of .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Now in its nineteenth year, the campaign provides tools and resources to help people learn more about the cyber security industry and the ways they can get involved.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Create security awareness for employees. Change passwords regularly. This can be risky.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 15, 2024

Organizations have spent millions developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies to bolster their defenses against such threats, and many already have security awareness campaigns, so why are we failing to stop these attacks? People also have a slow, deliberate and analytical thought process, called System 2.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

SAP April 2023 security updates include a total of 24 notes, 19 of which are new vulnerabilities. Once the attacker gained access to BI user’s passwords and depending on the privileges of the BI user, he can perform operations that can completely compromise the application.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This neglect is not only a threat to personal data, but also a threat to corporate security. According to our survey, the majority of consumers (77 percent) are confident they can identify, and report suspected malicious cyber activity despite general apathy toward proactively securing their devices and personal data. Confidence gap.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Fortunately, effective tools and wise best practices can help mitigate this this exposure enabling companies to indefinitely leverage Exchange Server as a productive, resilient and secure communications tool. Implement strong password policies and multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access. Robust access control.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

For this study, a data breach was defined as an intruder copying or leaking user data such as names, surnames, email addresses, passwords, etc. More than two thirds of American accounts are leaked with the password, putting breached users in danger of account takeover. Essential security tool.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.” In a filing with the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Remote access security is critical for protecting increasingly distributed work environments, ensuring that only authorized users can access your valuable information regardless of their location. Keys, such as strong passwords, unique codes, or biometric scans, can be given to trusted individuals to access your resources from a distance.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has started a campaign to increase awareness of these risks to U.S. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Therefore, educating your employees about the importance of security to your network is critical. The efficacy of hygiene.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing attack.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expert insight from Leon Teale into the implications of this historic data breach The security researcher Bob Diachenko and investigators from Cybernews have discovered an open instance with more than 26 billion data records, mostly compiled from previous breaches – although it likely also includes new data.

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Roger's Information Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor wrote in March it is time to reconsider mandatory password changes. Unless there is reason to believe a password has been compromised or shared, requiring regular password changes may actually do more harm than good in some cases. You could force longer passwords to encourage passphrases.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Aqua Security’s cloud security research team recently found thousands of registries and artifact repositories exposed online, revealing more than 250 million artifacts and over 65,000 container images. “However, this should never come at the expense of security.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco ASA and FTD bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3259 (CVSS score: 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability to extract sensitive data from the memory of the affected devices, including usernames and passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The security breach was detected on March 17, 2003 and according to the company the intrusion begun on or about March 6, 2023. It it important to highlight that even with the passwords being hashed and salted, threat actors can obtain the plain text the passwords, especially for weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

The National Safety Council leaked thousands of emails and passwords of their members, including companies such as NASA and Tesla. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? For large businesses, those costs may be a drop in the ocean.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In May 2021, over 36,000 email and password combinations for.edu email accounts were offered for sale on a publically available instant messaging platform. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Public cloud security refers to protections put in place to secure data and resources in cloud environments shared by multiple users or organizations. Major cloud service providers have generally had good security , so cloud users can be pretty confident in the security of their data and applications if they get their part right.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Infrastructure as a service security is a concept that assures the safety of organizations’ data, applications, and networks in the cloud. Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

But as is often the case with technological solutions, the benefits of convenience comes with security risks. In this blog, we look at the top five Cloud security challenges that organisations face, and provide tips on how to overcome them. As such, organisations must be sure that effective security measures are in place.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 293 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. PuTTY.exe Rhysida actors have been observed creating Secure Shell (SSH) PuTTy connections for lateral movement. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

Google announced the introduction of the passwordless secure sign-in with Passkeys for Google Accounts on all platforms. Google is rolling out the passwordless secure sign-in with Passkeys for Google Accounts on all platforms. In 2022, Google announced it would begin work to support passkeys on its platform to replace passwords.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. As cloud adoption grows exponentially, businesses scramble to amend security strategies to keep their data and end users safe. User Authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Nominate Pierluigi Paganini and Security Affairs here here: [link] Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. We are in the final !

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Make the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (“CISA”) Fact Sheet on Rising Ransomware Threat to Operational Technology Assets and other ransomware resources required reading for IT staff. Step #2: Schedule a security refresher for your employees.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The propounded web page is highly customized ([link] and looks like a form with logos and names of the targeted organization with a preset e-mail address and a password field to be typed. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This month, we look at a bogus online contest designed to capture your Facebook login details, the latest Microsoft scam and whether ‘passwordless’ security can mitigate the threat of scams. However, the code is actually part of Facebook’s password reset mechanism. This will send the one-time password to the victim’s account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

The Atomic macOS Stealer allows operators to can steal various types of information from the infected machines, including Keychain passwords, complete system information, files from the desktop and documents folder, and even the macOS password. The threat actors spread the malware in the form of a ‘.dmg’ ” concludes the report.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise. One of the ways it does that is by warning people about security threats when they enter their Windows password into websites and documents.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a small business looking for the secret sauce to cybersecurity, the secret is out: start with a cybersecurity policy and make the commitment to security a business-wide priority. Taurins It’s also essential your business evaluates its technology and keeps it regularly updated to the latest security standards. Stay educated.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. This attack could’ve easily been avoided if Yahoo had invested more in the security infrastructure. All of that could’ve been avoided had SolarWinds implemented a strong password policy. government agencies.

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