SUMMARY Risk management involves the practice of addressing and handling threats to the organization in the form of cybersecurity attacks and compromised or lost data. The process of establishing appropriate risk management guidelines is critical to ensure company operations and reputation do not suffer adverse impacts. It’s not an easy process, achieving a sound risk …
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CrowdStrike’s new threat report sees a big increase in data theft activity, as attackers move away from ransomware and other malware attacks, as defense gets better, and the value of data increases.
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The Security Incident Response Policy, from TechRepublic Premium, describes the organization’s process for minimizing and mitigating the results of an information technology security-related incident. From the policy: Whenever a user of an organization-provided computer, device, system, network application, cloud service or platform experiences a suspected technology-related security incident, the individual must immediately notify the IT …
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What is fuzz testing? Fuzz testing (fuzzing) is a quality assurance technique used to discover coding errors or bugs and […]
Modern services live and breathe in the cloud. Cloud technologies have taken over the world by storm and onboarded almost every possible service through their easy-to-maintain infrastructure and cost-effective offerings. Enterprises are focusing on becoming fully cloud-centric. The extensive adoption brings many advantages to the table with security risks. Security is an utmost priority and […]
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Ethical hacking is a great skill to learn with new cyber threats on the rise. Learn how to fight back with this ethical hacking course bundle.
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The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy aims to go after attackers, cultivate a resilience-first defensive posture and build public, private and international collaboration.
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In February 2023, data alleged to have been taken from the fraud protection service Eye4Fraud was listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. Spanning tens of millions of rows with 16M unique email addresses, the data was spread across 147 tables totalling 65GB and included both direct users of the service and what appears to be individuals who’d placed orders on other services that implemented Eye4Fraud to protect their sales. The data included names and bcrypt password hashes for users, and names, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial credit card data (card type and last 4 digits) for orders placed using the service. Eye4Fraud did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.
In February 2023, the tech camps for kids service iD Tech had almost 1M records posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 415k unique email addresses, names, dates of birth and plain text passwords which appear to have been breached in the previous month. iD Tech did not respond to multiple attempts to report the incident.
In August 2022, customer data of the Indian shopping site “LBB” (Little Black Book) was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained over 3M records with 39k unique email addresses alongside IP and physical addresses, names and device information with the most recent data dating back to early 2019. LBB advised they believe the data was exposed by a third party service and whilst it contained information they retain on their customers, it had also been enriched with additional data attributes.