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Happy 12th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!
PRIVACY PRIVACY KrebsOnSecurity turns 12 years old today. That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me! Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty…
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Geopolitical Tensions Expected to Further Impact Cybersecurity in 2023
PRIVACY PRIVACY The global political landscape will continue to have an impact on cybersecurity as nation-state backed cyber-attacks continue Read More
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QR Code Scam
PRIVACY PRIVACY An enterprising individual made fake parking tickets with a QR code for easy payment. Read More
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Celebrate National Download Day With This Safe Downloading Checklist
PRIVACY PRIVACY Happy Download Day! (Yes, there’s a day for that.) Today is an excellent day to share downloading best practices to keep all your devices safe from malicious content. It’s tempting to download “free” shows, movies, and video games, but the consequences of doing so can be quite expensive. All it takes is for…
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Log4Shell remains a big threat and a common cause for security breaches
PRIVACY PRIVACY The Log4Shell critical vulnerability that impacted millions of enterprise applications remains a common cause for security breaches a year after it received patches and widespread attention and is expected to remain a popular target for some time to come. Its long-lasting impact highlights the major risks posed by flaws in transitive software dependencies…
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Everything You Need to Know About Identity Remediation
PRIVACY PRIVACY There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it: A stolen identity creates a mess. Once they have a few key pieces of personally identifiable information (PII), an identity thief can open new credit lines, create convincing new identities, and ruin an innocent person’s good credit. If you suspect you’ve been affected by…
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Arresting IT Administrators
PRIVACY PRIVACY This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from a cyberattack by alleged Iranian hackers. Prosecutors said the five IT officials of the public administration department had failed to…
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LastPass Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. Turns out the full story is worse: While no customer data was accessed during the August 2022 incident, some source code and technical information were stolen from our development environment and used to target another employee, obtaining credentials and…
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The top 12 tech stories of 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY The year highlighted how vulnerable the technology sector is to the vagaries of geopolitics and the macroeconomy, as IT giants laid off workers, regulators cracked down on tech rule-breakers, nations negotiated data security regulations, the US-China chip war widened, and the Ukraine war disrupted business as usual. Read More
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Myth-busting Antivirus Software Assumptions
PRIVACY PRIVACY The number of new viruses grows every day. In fact, McAfee registers an average of 1.1 million new malicious programs and potentially unwanted apps (PUA) each day, which contributes to the millions and millions already in existence. While there is no way to know when or how cyberattacks will occur, it’s clear that…