Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The most common way for criminals to infect an organization is by sending an email with a malicious link or attachment that an employee clicks on unwittingly to initiate an attack. These may be emails sent to millions of potential victims or targeted emails sent to a specific person in a particular organization. Spam Filter.

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Ransomware Encryption Insurance Cloud 97

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Jason is a graphic tool implemented to perform Microsoft exchange account brute-force in order to “harvest” the highest possible emails and accounts information. Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. Michael Lortz.

Computer and Electronics 106

Computer and Electronics Passwords Cybersecurity Security 106

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

Corporations, nonprofit organizations, utilities, and all manners of government agencies use managed service providers. Managed service providers, also known as MSPs, offer organizations of all sizes a way to gain fractional expertise and capabilities unrelated to their core activities without the need for a huge upfront investment.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

Corporations, nonprofit organizations, utilities, and all manners of government agencies use managed service providers. Managed service providers, also known as MSPs, offer organizations of all sizes a way to gain fractional expertise and capabilities unrelated to their core activities without the need for a huge upfront investment.

IT 97

IT Security Cybersecurity Communications 97

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

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. "Have I been pwned?"

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Data breaches Passwords Sales IT 145

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

“We have a long-standing policy to send you a warning if we detect that your account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. . “We have a long-standing policy to send you a warning if we detect that your account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Implement strong data governance policies, conduct regular compliance audits, and employ cloud services that offer features matched with industry standards. Centralize secrets and set storage to private: Keep API keys and passwords in a centralized, secure management system. Make the default data storage settings private.

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Cloud Risk Security Encryption 127

Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

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). The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017.

Data breaches 74

Data breaches Passwords Government IT 74

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it?

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Data apparently includes users’ full names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and partial payment card information. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. Let me explain why and how.

Passwords 145

Passwords IT Privacy Libraries 145

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Whether it’s infected emails stealing employee access credentials or the plague of r a nsomware that has menaced the business world in recent years, there are a number of ways malware can disrupt your organization. If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware.

Ransomware 140

Ransomware Cybersecurity Passwords Access 140

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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Data breaches Passwords IT Mining 111