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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for December 2022

IT Governance

Welcome to our December 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. The video directed viewers to visit a website where they could enter a giveaway to win cryptocurrency. Hello everyone.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

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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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). — Jannis Tenbrink (@the_jannis) October 2, 2017.