LastPass Hack: Engineer’s Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach
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Mar 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananPassword Security / Software Update
The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer,...
Dutch Police Arrest 3 Hackers Involved in Massive Data Theft and Extortion Scheme
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Feb 27, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan
The Dutch police announced the arrest of three individuals in connection with a "large-scale" criminal operation involving data theft, extortion, and money laundering.
The suspects include...
LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults
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Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananPassword Security / Data Breach
LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it...
Reddit Suffers Security Breach Exposing Internal Documents and Source Code
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Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Source Code
Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat...
Sydney Man Sentenced for Blackmailing Optus Customers After Data Breach
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Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / SMS Fraud
A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order (CCO) and 100 hours of community service for attempting...
Cybersecurity Budgets Are Going Up. So Why Aren’t Breaches Going Down?
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Over the past few years, cybersecurity has become a major concern for businesses around the globe. With the total cost of cybercrime in 2023 forecasted to reach $8...
LastPass Parent Company GoTo Suffers Data Breach, Customers’ Backups Compromised
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Jan 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Remote Work Tool
LastPass-owner GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) on Tuesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors were able to steal encrypted backups of some customers'...
Mailchimp Suffers Another Security Breach Compromising Some Customers’ Information
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Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Security Breach
Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal...
Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident
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Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Data Security
DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee's laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed...
Twitter Denies Hacking Claims, Assures Leaked User Data Not from its System
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Jan 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Security / Privacy
Twitter on Wednesday said that its investigation found "no evidence" that users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting any security vulnerabilities...