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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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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraudulent

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GlHMOtyrs8I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

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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=””/>

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Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher

August 27, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, Alpha bay, Courvoisier, cryptocurrency, dark web, data loss, Grant West, Law & order, MFA, Operation Draba, password reuse, passwords, phishing, security threats, strong passwords

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:56:31 +0000

Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/sHYkSkwLCAs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Massive MoviePass database found exposed on public server

August 22, 2019 0 Comments breach, data loss, Database, exposed database, Mossab Hussein, MoviePass, passwords, plaintext, Privacy, security threats, SpiderSilk

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:53:50 +0000

Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/I_WpJujTJuc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Did Facebook know about “View As” bug before 2018 breach?

August 19, 2019 0 Comments access tokens, data breach, data loss, facebook, facebook data, Law & order, online privacy, Privacy, security threats, social network, Social networks, View As, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:31:52 +0000

Even though Facebook protected employees, it failed to fix the vulnerability or to protect most users, a court filing charges.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3KG4K9pSsio” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacking forum spills rival’s 321,000 member database

August 15, 2019 0 Comments Cracked.to, data breach, data leak, data loss, doxing, Hackers, hacking forums, Have I been pwned, Privacy, RaidForums, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:41:09 +0000

When users of hacking forums turn on each other, expect things to get messy quickly.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/xvjD6W7zzTE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests

August 12, 2019 0 Comments Black Hat 2019, data loss, Data privacy, GDPR, GDPR compliance, General Data Protection Regulation, identity theft, James Pavur, Privacy, right of access requests, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:07:10 +0000

A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/EyJdhSW2bqw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Don’t fall for fake Equifax settlement sites, warns FTC

August 7, 2019 0 Comments breach, data loss, Equifax, fake settlement sites, FTC

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:34:15 +0000

Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/E1M2UWw-AqY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>