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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap for the finance teams at small businesses to improve cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. These back-ups can also be used to form a disaster recovery plan in the event of a natural disaster. Stay educated.

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

eSecurity Planet

The problem: Microsoft patched 73 vulnerabilities in its most recent Patch Tuesday event, which occurs every month. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-3259 , was first discovered in May 2020. Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys. The vulnerability exists in ExpressVPN Version 12 for Windows. Enabling logging.

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Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users

Krebs on Security

But just days before the event Western Digital released MyCloud OS 5 , which eliminated the bug they found. In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, Western Digital said it received their report after Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020, but that at the time the vulnerability they reported had already been fixed by the release of My Cloud OS 5.

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More New York SHIELD Act guidance

Data Protection Report

The container had a database backup file with over three million records of customer email addresses and account passwords, the latter of which were hashed and salted. Wegmans updated the container configurations to prohibit public access on May 12, 2021 and notified consumers. Our Take.

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Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked

Krebs on Security

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Password re-use becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous when website developers engage in this unsafe practice.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

According to a Deloitte Center for Controllership poll , “During the past 12 months, 34.5% ” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.”