Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach It should serve as no surprise, two of the breaches profiled this week occurred as the result of compromised email address and passwords. The particular events highlight the need to make password hygiene and compromised credential monitoring front and center.
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Breach news to share with your customers! This week shows no shortage of targeted attacks designed to extract large datasets from a broad range of consumer sites. Travel, finance and entertainment sites were targeted, impacting more than 100,000,000 unsuspecting victims. If anything, this week clearly demonstrates why individuals need to proactively monitor for their compromised data with tools like ID Agent’s SpotLight ID – Personal Identity & Credit Monitoring Solutions. The events of this week also clearly demonstrate why businesses must monitor for compromised credentials that can be used to exploit internal systems and to compromise or takeover customer accounts.
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Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – Finance sector attacks ramping up – BackSwap JavaScript injections effectively circumventing detection – Honda has leaky buckets too
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Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – You’d better reboot your router… NOW! – Nation states injecting malicious apps into play stores to steal your stuff. – Malware infects healthcare system impacting 500,000 Marylanders. – Time from detection to acknowledgment and response getting slower and slower and slower.
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The Week in Breach: 5/14/18 – 5/20/18 Breach news to share with your customers! Highlight’s from The Week in Breach: Ransomware still plaguing state and local agencies Accidental data disclosures on the rise AWS implementation flaws create security flaws compromised
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Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! Two-factor Authentication Hackable? Our friends at KnowBe4 show 2 Factor may not be enough in some cases. Student of The Month in California! Phish Teacher, Change Grades, Get Felony! You can’t make this stuff up!
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Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! This past week proved to be the quietest week of the year when it comes to the volume of confirmed breaches. I certainly don’t expect this to be the case next week. Our team is seeing an uptick in chatter across dark web forums indicating confirmed exploits impacting several organizations in the financial, healthcare and legal sectors. I do have to give credit to Twitter’s CTO for going public with the fact that they accidentally stored passwords in clear text. See links to Twitter articles below.
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Breach Updates and News Small Business Can Use! Not Worried About that Public Data Breach? You Should be! Credential Stuffing Bots are on the rise and working overtime to exploit you!
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Last month, the United States Department of Justice indicted nine Iranian hackers for a wave of brute force attacks. These attacks resulted in the digital theft of more than 31 terabytes in information worth $3 billion in intellectual property.
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It’s the little things that give you away. This past week brought us a diverse set of incidents. Unfortunately, several of the high-profile compromises could have been easily prevented. From database misconfigurations to Phishing exploits, this week was the busiest week in disclosure since the week of March 19th.
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