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Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN

October 23, 2019 0 Comments data breach, data hack, data leak, Hacker, NordVPN, Privacy, security threats, torguard, virtual private network, vpn, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:41:12 +0000

NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/f5mz8QmYkC8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Travel database exposed PII on US government employees

October 23, 2019 0 Comments amazon, AWS, best western, best western hotel & resorts group, data breach, data loss, department of homeland security, Elasticsearch, PII, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:40 +0000

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ya-mCNqAOjw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site

October 14, 2019 0 Comments ashley madison, blackmail, breach, data breach, data loss, extortion, hookers.nl, Law & order, netherlands, prostitution, security threats, vbulletin, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:33:42 +0000

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ohkoUzZ8kvQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

Will 5G increase mobile security?

October 4, 2019 0 Comments 5G, data breach, Mobile, Mobile Security, Security, Wi-fi

Credit to Author: Jack Gold| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:22:00 -0700

We love our smartphones, but there's a dark side. Their prevalence and users’ tendencies to connect over public Wi-Fi make mobile devices a common target of bad guys. Analyst Jack Gold looks at how to mitigate the risk.

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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

October 2, 2019 0 Comments breach, data breach, data loss, draw something, gnosticplayers, hashing, omgpop, online games, passwords, Privacy, salt, salting, security threats, sha-1, sha1, words with friends, zynga

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

MalwareBytes Security

What role does data destruction play in cybersecurity?

September 23, 2019 0 Comments Business, data, data breach, data destruction, Data privacy, degaussing, GDPR, nist, overwrite, ovewriting, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII

Credit to Author: Kayla Matthews| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:18:26 +0000

Organizations are keen to protect the personal data of their employees and customers from cyberattack. But what about the data they no longer need? We discuss why data destruction is just as important to cybersecurity as protection.

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Business

Tags: data data breach data destruction Data privacy degaussing gdpr NIST overwrite ovewriting personal information personally identifiable information PII

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Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

September 6, 2019 0 Comments Cambridge Analytica, data breach, data loss, exposed database, facebook, Privacy, sim swap, telephone number

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:46:55 +0000

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1g5AlsbhrXc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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XKCD forums breached

September 3, 2019 0 Comments bcrypt, breach, correcthorsebatterystaple, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, hashing, MD5, phpBB, salting, security threats, vulnerability, xkcd

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:17:58 +0000

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YDE5xjmhFxY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

September 2, 2019 0 Comments capital one, CFAA, Cloud Computing, cryptojacking, data breach, data loss, erratic, federal grand jury, Hacker, Hacking, indictment, Law & order, misconfigured servers, Paige Thompson, software engineer, vulnerability, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:39:21 +0000

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/au_7MSrus80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached

August 27, 2019 0 Comments 000Webhost, account breach, data breach, data loss, Hostinger, Password Hashing, security threats, sha-1

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:08:02 +0000

Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/rmG_gn8oMZQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>