CyberheistNews Vol 13 #05 | January 31st, 2023 Cybersecurity Ventures released a new report that claims cybercrime is going to cost the world $8 trillion in 2023. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime would be the world's third largest economy after the U.S. and China. The …
A Physicist’s Dive into Photolok, an Innovative Password Replacement System and More …
Source: Paul Sigismondi, Ph.D., is a research physicist and educator. He has a B.S. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include theoretical astrophysics and quantum field …
[Heads Up] Giant LastPass Breach Can Supercharge Spear Phishing Attacks
Roger Grimes KnowBe4 recommends that everyone use a password manager to create and use strong passwords as a part of their password policy: https://info.knowbe4.com/wp-password-policy-should-be LastPass, one of the world's most popular password managers, recently had a bad data breach as …
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[Heads Up] Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for Next Year. Read It, This Is a Good One
CyberheistNews Vol 12 #52 | December 28th, 2022 To start off I'm repeating the tradition of my same New Year's wish as a newsletter editor since 1996: "A world without war, crime and insanity, where honest people can flourish, prosper and reach greater heights". At the end of the year I …
Password Reset Calls Are Costing Your Org Big Money
Sponsored by Specops Software • December 6, 2022 Frustrating for both users and administrators, password management can be a challenge to manage in any organization. One lost or stolen password may be the crack in your organization's foundation, allowing an attacker to slip …
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Hackers Claim to Have California Department of Finance Data
The international ransomware group LockBit claims to have stolen 76 gigabytes of data from the California Department of Finance. The data is said to include confidential and financial documents, and other sensitive information. December 13, 2022 • Lindsey Holden, The Sacramento Bee (TNS) - …
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