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Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site

October 17, 2019 0 Comments breach, Brian Krebs, briansclub, carding sites, dark market, dark web, data loss, hackers hacked, hacking back, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:06:06 +0000

They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RIxUWTXL53k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud

October 16, 2019 0 Comments 2fa, Celebrities, data loss, Hacked, hijacking, jack monroe, Law & order, MFA, Mobile, multi-factor authentication, phishing, security threats, sim swap, SIM swapping, Social engineering, two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:53:52 +0000

Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what’s a good security tool.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/QJiDHTqtHDo” 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=””/>

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Ransomware attacks paralyze, and sometimes crush, hospitals

October 3, 2019 0 Comments data loss, health care, hospitals, malware, medical records, ransom attacks, Ransomware, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:46:08 +0000

New attacks on the perennially besieged sector have crippled hospitals in the US and Australia and caused one health clinic to shut down.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/D-Zw_aOxTlU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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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=””/>

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Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted

October 1, 2019 0 Comments acechemstore, Botnet, bulletproof, cannabis road, cyberbunker, Cybercrime, dark web, darknet, data center, data loss, Denial of Service, fraudsters, germany, hosting provider, Law & order, lifestyle pharma, malware, mirai, nato, netherlands, orangechemicals, organized crime, Server, Spam, spamhaus, traben-trarbach, wall street market

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:41:45 +0000

Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mdF0Y34b2RU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:41:45 +0000

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Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges

September 27, 2019 0 Comments confidence scams, data loss, fake profiles, fraud, FTC, Law & order, lawsuit, match.com, okcupid, online dating, phishing, plenty of fish, Romance Scams, security threats, Social networks, tinder

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:48 +0000

Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qoySkY_s2X8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme

September 26, 2019 0 Comments andrei tyurin, breach, cyberattacks, data loss, gery shalon, guilty plea, Hacking, joshua samuel aaron, jpmorgan, Law & order, pump and dump, russia, securities fraud, security threats, ziv orenstein

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:27:06 +0000

Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tqRY012oxXA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Researchers find 737 million medical images exposed on the internet

September 19, 2019 0 Comments data leak, data loss, dicom, GDPR, greenbone networks, healthcare, hipaa, medical, medical data, pacs, Privacy, security threats, unsecured database

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:45:21 +0000

Of the 2,300 archiving systems looked at, 590 were accessible from the internet, exposing 24 million medical records from 52 countries.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/0XCH8Caa0mg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>