February is a great month to refresh your cyber awareness skills. February 11 marks Safer Internet Day, encouraging us to work together to make the internet a safer and better place. It’s the perfect time to learn more about cybersecurity risks and best practices for protecting yourself and your loved ones online. And while February […]
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Given Chrome’s frequent security issues, you shouldn’t be saving your passwords to Google’s browser. Learn how to delete and prevent passwords from re-syncing in Chrome.
In July 2022, the Adopt Me Trading Values website for assessing the value of pet trades within the “Adopt Me!” Roblox game suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 86k unique email addresses along with usernames (and Roblox usernames), IP addresses and bcrypt password hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “Leidhall”.
In January 2019, the Indonesian college and career platform Youthmanual suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1M records of data. The breached included 938k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, genders, dates and places of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes.
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Speculation about the iOS 18.3.1 release has surfaced. This includes a related Starlink connectivity rumor.
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As a Senior Crisis Consultant in the cybersecurity industry, I see a shift in how organizations prepare themselves for a potential cyber crisis. Traditional risk assessment methods are no longer sufficient. They often result in measures only being taken for the most likely incidents.
However, it is usually events considered unlikely that cause the greatest impact, for which organizations are not prepared. Regulators recognize this, so here is my wake up call: prepare for the WORST…
I see two big challenges organizations face:
Determining what the worst case scenario could be and to what extent you should prepare.
Linking the technical, operational and tactical response to strategic crisis management.
Let’s look at how you can start to tackle these challenges.
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