In September 2024, over 90M rows of data on French Citizens was found left exposed in a publicly facing database. Compiled from various data breaches, the corpus contained 28M unique email addresses with the various source breaches each exposing different fields including name, physical and IP address, phone number and partial credit card data including payment type and last 4 digits.
A blog about the ipdate to the SANS SEC587 OSINT course.
In December 2024, data claimed to be breached from the multi-level marketing company Young Living Essential Oils was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 1.1M unique email addresses alongside names, the country of the account and in many cases, their date of birth. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “Threat Actor 888”. Young Living Essential Oils did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the data.
In September 2024, data from the online German gift store schenkYOU was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum. Obtained the month before, the data included 237k unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth and salted SHA-256 password hashes. The standalone store was subsequently shut down with all traffic redirected to their Amazon store.
Norton and McAfee are among the original AV vendors. Does one have an edge over the other?
A public key certificate is a digitally signed document that serves to validate the sender’s authorization and name. It uses […]
In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, usernames, bios, private messages, video comments and for some records, gender, date of birth and country of location.
In October, we released version 2.4.110: https://blog.securityonion.net/2024/10/security-onion-24110-hurricane-helene.html Last week, Suricata 7.0.8 was released and it resolves several security issues: https://suricata.io/2024/12/12/suricata-7-0-8-released/ […]
This is a comprehensive QRadar vs. Splunk SIEM tool comparison, covering their features, pricing, and more. Use this guide to find the best SIEM tool for you.
A blog about the latest update to Siftgrab, including a new function that generates several preformatted Excel workbooks.