San Francisco 49ers hit by ransomware, files leaked online • The Register I am going to highlight this attack as some of my information may have been compromised.
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49ers hit by BlackByte ransomware
San Francisco’s American Football team, The 49ers, has been hit by a ransomware attack. The information relating to the compromised data has appeared on a Dark Web list, where the hackers hope to shame the organisation into paying the ransom before stolen sensitive data is leaked. (No encryption involved in …
More on the sharing of compromised passwords with “‘;–have i been pwned?”
I wrote about this yesterday: UK National Crime Agency shares compromised passwords – Smart Thinking Solutions Here are two more stories about The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) donation of passwords in the wild. UK donates 225 million stolen passwords to hack-checking site – BBC News UK National Crime Agency finds …
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UK National Crime Agency shares compromised passwords
There is a website where you can check if your password has been compromised – yes really. It does sound like a scam to harvest unsuspecting users passwords, but no. The website https://haveibeenpwned.com/ has built a reputation as a useful cyber security tool. Now the UK National Crime Agency has …
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Windows Cloud Clipboard – Firefox fixes password leak
Mozilla has fixed a password leak from its Firefox browser associated with the Windows Cloud Clipboard. Firefox fixes password leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard feature – The Record by Recorded Future What is the Windows Cloud Clipboard? What’s new in Windows 10, version 1809 – What’s new in Windows | …
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