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Mom’s Meals issues “Notice of Data Event”: What to know and what to do

By: Paul Ducklin
It took six months for notifications to start, and we still don't know exactly what went down... but here's our advice on what to do.

SEC demands four-day disclosure limit for cybersecurity breaches

By: Paul Ducklin
When is a ransomware attack a reportable matter? And how long have you got to decide?

S3 Ep131: Can you really have fun with FORTRAN?

By: Paul Ducklin
Loop-the-loop in this week's episode. Entertaining, educational and all in plain English. Transcript inside.

Ex-CEO of breached pyschotherapy clinic gets prison sentence for bad data security

By: Paul Ducklin
Did the sentence fit the crime? Read the backstory, and then have your say in our comments! (You may post anonymously.)

Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue firmware” alert

By: Paul Ducklin
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch's personal signet ring... you get to put an official seal on treasonous material.

Bitcoin ATM customers hacked by video upload that was actually an app

By: Paul Ducklin
As the misquote goes, "Once is misfortune..." This is the second time, and you know what Lady Bracknell had to say about that...

LastPass: Keylogger on home PC led to cracked corporate password vault

By: Paul Ducklin
Seems the crooks implanted a keylogger via a vulnerable media app (LastPass politely didn't say which one!) on a developer's home computer.

Coinbase breached by social engineers, employee data stolen

By: Paul Ducklin
Another day, another "sophisticated" attack. This time, the company has handily included some useful advice along with its mea culpa...

GoDaddy admits: Crooks hit us with malware, poisoned customer websites

By: Paul Ducklin
New report admits that attackers were detected in the network about three months ago, and may have been attacking for about three years.

Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”

By: Paul Ducklin
Reddit is suggesting three tips as a follow-up to this breach. We agree with two of them but not with the third...

Finnish psychotherapy extortion suspect arrested in France

By: Naked Security writer
Company transcribed ultra-personal conversations, didn't secure them. Criminal stole them, then extorted thousands of vulnerable patients.

Dutch suspect locked up for alleged personal data megathefts

By: Paul Ducklin
Undercover Austrian "controlled data buy" leads to Amsterdam arrest and ongoing investigation. Suspect is said to steal and sell all sorts of data, including medical records.

GoTo admits: Customer cloud backups stolen together with decryption key

By: Paul Ducklin
We were going to write, "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"... but it seems to go without saying these days.

CircleCI – code-building service suffers total credential compromise

By: Paul Ducklin
They're saying "rotate secrets"... in plain English, they mean "change your credentials". The company has a tool to help you find them all.

Twitter data of “+400 million unique users” up for sale – what to do?

By: Paul Ducklin
If the crooks have connected up your phone number and your Twitter handle... what could go wrong?

LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal your password vaults, after all…

By: Paul Ducklin
The crooks now know who you are, where you live, which computers are yours, where you go online... and they got those password vaults, too.

LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

By: Paul Ducklin
Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round.

Online ticketing company “See” pwned for 2.5 years by attackers

By: Paul Ducklin
Don't be a cybersecurity slowcoach - you need to spot possible attacks as soon as you can.

Fashion brand SHEIN fined $1.9m for lying about data breach

By: Naked Security writer
Is "pay a small fine and keep on trading" a sufficient penalty for letting a breach happen, impeding an investigation, and hiding the truth?

S3 Ep102: How to avoid a data breach [Audio + Transcript]

By: Paul Ducklin
Latest episode - listen now! Tell fact from fiction in hyped-up cybersecurity news...

Optus breach – Aussie telco told it will have to pay to replace IDs

By: Paul Ducklin
Licence compromised? Passport number burned? Need a new one? Who's going to pay?

LastPass source code breach – incident response report released

By: Paul Ducklin
Wondering how you'd handle a data breach report if the worst happened to you? Here's a useful example.

UBER HAS BEEN HACKED, boasts hacker – how to stop it happening to you

By: Paul Ducklin
Uber is all over the news for a widely-publicised data breach. We help you answer the question, "How do I stop this happening to me?"

LastPass source code breach – do we still recommend password managers?

By: Paul Ducklin
What does the recent LastPass breach mean for password managers? Just a bump in the road, or a reason to ditch them entirely?

T-Mobile to cough up $500 million over 2021 data breach

By: Paul Ducklin
Technically, it's not a fine, and the lawyers will get a big chunk of it. But it still adds up to a half-billion-dollar data breach.

Capital One identity theft hacker finally gets convicted

By: Paul Ducklin
It took three years, but the Capital One cracker was convicted in the end. Don't get caught out in a data breach of your own!

GoDaddy admits to password breach: check your Managed WordPress site!

By: Paul Ducklin
GoDaddy found crooks in its network, and kicked them out - but not before they'd been in there for six weeks.

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