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“2FA would have made it much harder for Needham to traipse through Voova’s AWS account posing as “Speedy.” Of course, you also have to lock the door after employees leave by shutting down their accounts.”

” … The company was the victim of a hacker attack in summer 2018 during which hackers captured personal data. One reason they were able to do this was that customers’ passwords were saved in plain text on the company server. In addition to this, Knuddels had neglected to install the new version of the […]

… Generally, this type of hack starts with a successful spear phishing attack that opens up the victim’s network to the bad guys who then move laterally and compromise critical systems.

Personal information belonging to over half a million students … may have been compromised in a data breach incident.  An unauthorized person baited the staff with phishing emails to collect credentials to log into the district’s network services.

University officials tell News Channel 11 that two unidentified employees clicked on a link in the phishing scam that was sent to their e-mail accounts.

Step one for not falling victim to business email compromise schemes: Senior managers must ensure they have a written and tested plan in place to ensure they don’t fall victim to the schemes, also known as CEO fraud.

De website werd namelijk getroffen door de zwaarste hackeraanval in zijn geschiedenis, waardoor de hackers in kwestie toegang kregen tot gebruikersdata van bijna 50 miljoen accounts.

It’s not great when any organisation loses a laptop, but if the contents of the computer’s hard drive have been fully encrypted and a strong password has been used it’s hardly the end of the world.

Using two sets of weak, easy-to-guess usernames and passwords, a security researcher accessed an internal staff portal.

Sophisticated malware has taken down systems in at least two Alaskan municipalities in an attack that officials say is the worst they have ever seen.