Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. Second place went to China (17%).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Most mobile providers offer customers the option of placing a PIN or secret passphrase on their accounts to lessen the likelihood of such attacks succeeding, but these protections also usually fail when the attackers are social engineering some $12-an-hour employee at a mobile phone store. YOUR GOVERNMENT.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. million US customers had been affected by 2017’s Equifax breach , bringing the total number of victims to 147.9

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Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2018

Here's how I feel about 2017: Blogging. Things like the most popular posts: The Onliner Spambot post was more than twice as popular as the next biggest post and both the top 2 were about massive dumps of personal data on the web. The "Hold My Beer" post was probably the most fun (or is that "frightening"?)

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