In July 2024, a data breach of the now defunct cannabis social platform BudTrader was posted for sale on a hacking forum. Dating back to the previous month, the breach of the website exposed 2.7M email addresses, usernames and WordPress password hashes.
Revelations about “Salt Typhoon” highlight that cyber threats targeting essential services are not a future concern—they are here and happening now.
In September 2024, data from the ticketing service Central Tickets was publicly posted to a hacking forum. The data suggests the breach occurred several months earlier and exposed 723k unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, IP addresses, purchases and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes.
A blog about how the increasing use of mobile and cloud technologies affects digital forensics and incident response.
There are a few standout candidates for the application of GenAI with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alerts.
In May 2016, the Vietnamese gaming forum GameVN suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. Data breached from the XenForo-based forum included 1.4M unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
A blog summarizing five takeaways from a discussion between four SANS industrial control systems (ICS) security experts.
In March 2024, millions of records scraped from the hunting and land management service HuntStand were publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included 2.8M unique email addresses with many records also containing name, date of birth and country.
Email spam, also known as junk email, refers to unsolicited email messages, usually sent in bulk to a large list […]
A blog about the biggest update ever to SEC510: Cloud Security Controls and Mitigations