Tag: data
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Australian Regulator Sues Optus Over 2022 Data Breach
The Information Commissioner has applied for a civil penalty against Optus following the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal details of 9.5 million Australians First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/australian-regulatory-sues-optus/
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Leaked Credentials Up 160%: What Attackers Are Doing With Them
When an organization’s credentials are leaked, the immediate consequences are rarely visible”, but the long-term impact is far-reaching. Far from the cloak-and-dagger tactics seen in fiction, many real-world cyber breaches begin with something deceptively simple: a username and password.According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, leaked credentials accounted for 22% of breaches First seen…
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Leaked Credentials Up 160%: What Attackers Are Doing With Them
When an organization’s credentials are leaked, the immediate consequences are rarely visible”, but the long-term impact is far-reaching. Far from the cloak-and-dagger tactics seen in fiction, many real-world cyber breaches begin with something deceptively simple: a username and password.According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, leaked credentials accounted for 22% of breaches First seen…
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13 Produkt-Highlights der Black Hat USA
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, business, chatgpt, cisco, cloud, compliance, credentials, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, detection, google, governance, Hardware, identity, leak, LLM, malware, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, openai, phishing, risk, saas, service, soc, threat, tool, usa, vulnerability, zero-trustDas Mandalay Bay Convention Center wird zur Black Hat USA zum Cybersecurity-Hub 2025 lag der Fokus dabei insbesondere auf Agentic und Generative AI.Zur Black-Hat-Konferenz haben sich auch 2025 Tausende von Sicherheitsexperten in Las Vegas zusammengefunden, um sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen im Bereich Cybersecurity zu informieren und auszutauschen. Der thematische Fokus lag dabei in erster…
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TeaOnHer copies everything from Tea including the data breaches
TeaOnHer hasn’t stopped at copying the functionality of the original Tea app (albeit skewed towards men rating women). It also appears to have carelessly mimicked the Tea dating advice app’s recklessness when it comes to data security. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/teaonher-copies-everything-from-tea-including-the-data-breaches
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Still Dangerous After All These Years
Ransomware isn’t dying, it’s evolving, swapping encryption for aggressive extortion as attacks and data theft hit record highs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/ransomware-still-dangerous-after-all-these-years/
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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals
An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university’s network in May. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/columbia-university-data-breach-impacts-nearly-870-000-students-applicants-employees/
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Bouygues Telecom Data Breach Exposes 6.4 Million Customer Records
Bouygues Telecom revealed the attackers stole personal data of 6.4 million customers, including contact details, contractual data and international bank account numbers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bouygues-telecom-breach-customer/
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Silent Guardian of Your Codebase: The Role of SAST
In 2025, the average cost of a data breach reached an alarming Rs 22 Crore; a 13% increase from the previous year. This trend highlights how breaches are not only more frequent and sophisticated but also increasingly costly, putting an organization’s reputation and finances at risk. To combat these threats, companies are investing in robust……
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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Unbefugter Zugriff bei einem globalen IT-Unternehmen
The Cost of a Call: From Voice Phishing to Data Extortion First seen on cloud.google.com Jump to article: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voice-phishing-data-extortion
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Unbefugter Zugriff bei einem globalen IT-Unternehmen
The Cost of a Call: From Voice Phishing to Data Extortion First seen on cloud.google.com Jump to article: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voice-phishing-data-extortion
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Data Center Security
In an era where data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, safeguarding the core of your digital operations”, the data center”, is absolutely non-negotiable. With cyber threats evolving, regulations tightening, and infrastructure growing more complex, data center security is the pillar of business continuity, trust, and reputation. At Seceon, we understand this better than anyone,…
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Inside Kasada: An Intern’s Dive into Bots, Data, and Company Culture
Meet Max and Kasey, two interns at Kasada who tackled real-world challenges from two very different angles”, machine learning and sales operations”, and came away with sharper skills, meaningful impact, and a clear sense of where they’re headed next. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/inside-kasada-an-interns-dive-into-bots-data-and-company-culture/
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Black Hat 2025 Recap: A look at new offerings announced at the show
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, automation, chatgpt, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, dark-web, data, detection, google, governance, group, identity, intelligence, LLM, malware, microsoft, monitoring, network, openai, password, risk, saas, service, soc, software, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustSnyk secures AI from inception: Snyk’s new platform capability, Secure at Inception, includes real-time security scanning that begins at the moment of code generation or execution. It offers visibility into generative AI, agentic, and model context protocol (MCP) components in software, and also features a new, experimental scanner for detecting AI-specific MCP vulnerabilities.Secure AI Inception…
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UnitedHealth Group’s Latest Health Data Breach Woes
Lawmakers Demand Answers From UHG Amid New Breach and Growing Fallout When you’ve been the victim of the largest health data breach in U.S. history, and you’ve been under intense public and regulatory scrutiny for months, the last thing you want to do is to report another major breach less than a year after the…
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Protecting your web applications against the OWASP Top 10
Web application security is a critical concern for businesses of all sizes. As more companies rely on web applications to manage their operations, store sensitive data and interact with customers, their associated risks continue to grow. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 is a widely recognised list of the most common web”¦…
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How D-EDGE Cut Bot Traffic by 75% Reclaimed Platform Performance with DataDome
Tags: dataD-EDGE reduced bot traffic by 75% with DataDome, improving platform performance, data visibility, and control”, without slowing down teams or users. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/how-d-edge-cut-bot-traffic-by-75-reclaimed-platform-performance-with-datadome/
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Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code
Two malicious NPM packages posing as WhatsApp development tools have been discovered deploying destructive data-wiping code that recursively deletes files on a developer’s computers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-whatsapp-developer-libraries-hide-destructive-data-wiping-code/
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Air France, KLM Alert Authorities of Data Breach
While no sensitive financial data like credit card information was compromised, the threat actors were able to get away with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/air-france-klm-data-breach
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Survey: Many Organizations Hit by Ransomware Fall Victim Multiple Times
A global survey of 2,000 senior security decision-makers in organizations with between 50 and 2,000 employees finds well over a third (38%) of those who were impacted by a data breach caused by a ransomware attack were victimized multiple times in the last 12 months. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf..…
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Splunk Unveils PLoB Tool to Detect Compromised Credential Usage
Splunk has introduced PLoB (Post-Logon Behaviour Fingerprinting and Detection) in a world where compromised credentials remain the primary vector for initial access in more than half of cybersecurity incidents, as noted in the Cisco Talos IR Trends report for Q1 2025 and supported by the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which shows 22% of breaches…
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Google Breached, What We Know, What They’re Saying
GOOG CRM PII AWOL: ‘ShinyHunters’ group hacked big-G and stole a load of customer data from a Salesforce cloud instance. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/google-breach-salesforce-shinyhunters/
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Cryptohack Roundup: Verdict in Tornado Cash Founder’s Case
Also: Samourai Wallet Co-Founders’ Guilty Plea, Coinbase Loss From Data Theft. This week, Tornado Cash co-founder convicted, Samourai Wallet guilty plea, Coinbase insider data theft, a U.S. court overturned an OpenSea executive’s fraud conviction, AI-written malware stole crypto, Credix exploit, CZ sought dismissal of FTX claim, July hacks and a FinCEN crypto ATM warning. First…