Collaborate Disseminate
Conor Fitzpatrick created and ran a notorious website used to facilitate online crime and leak sensitive data.
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The hacker who took responsibility for the D.C. Health Link breach claims to have targeted U.S. politicians out of allegiance for Russia.
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Hackers are once again finding unsecured MongoDB databases carelessly left exposed on the internet, wiping their contents, and leaving a ransom note demanding a cryptocurrency payment for the data’s safe return.
So far, so normal. But what’s diff… Continue reading 22,900 MongoDB databases held to ransom by hacker threatening to report firms for GDPR violations
Fraud and account take-over cost companies billions of dollars every year. Many of these successful attacks are the result of credential stuffing, a vulnerability created by users’ reuse of passwords across systems and websites. Because of the ri… Continue reading Specialized Threat Intelligence: Breach Data to Defensive Solution
As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we take a closer look at what a social engineering attack entails and how to spot them
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Bad news for XKCD user forum members – all 562,000 of them – reports Sergiu Gatlan (writing for Bleeping Computer) in a blog post on September 3rd; as email addresses, user names IP addresses, and salted and hashed passwords in MD5 format for all user… Continue reading XKCD User Forum Data Breach
Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch (& the associated risk) to someone else by using their cloud security service. While patching definitely falls into the security fundamentals category it remains as relevant as ever, but it’s not the only security best practice we need to collectively remember. Continue reading Security Fundamentals Are Key To Successful Cloud Migration
Capital One Financial Corporation just disclosed a cyber security incident that impacts about 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada. The customer data was illegally accessed sometime between March 12 and July 17, accor… Continue reading The CapitalOne Cyber Security Incident
Perhaps it’s too melodramatic to claim that the debate over how to define a data breach “rages on” because we haven’t seen bodies flying out of windows yet, but it is a serious question with genuine financial ramifications now t… Continue reading A Simple Data Breach Guide (Interpreting GDPR)
When you purchase a ticket for a flight, be it domestic or international, most are thinking of the purpose of that ticket: to travel from point A to point B. Those invested in the privacy and compliance discussion have since the dawn of the internet n… Continue reading Airlines and Personal Data: A Flight of Fancy