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Authy Breach Impact & RockYou 2024 Password Leak

Authy Breach: What It Means for You, RockYou 2024 Password Leak

| | 2fa, Authy, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication, Password, password leak, password list, passwords, Phishing, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, RockYou, RockYou2024, security, SIM swapping, social engineering, technology, two factor authentication, Weekly Edition
In episode 338, we discuss the recent breach of the two-factor authentication provider Authy and its implications for users. We also explore a massive password list leak titled ‘Rock You 2024’ that ...
Shared Security Podcast
Screenshot of bribery SMS spam

SIM Swappers Try Bribing T-Mobile and Verizon Staff $300

| | 2fa, 2FA bypass, 2FA Flaws, 2FA policies, 2FA/MFA, bypass 2FA, Industry Insider, Insider, Insider attack, Insider Attacks, insider breach, Insider Fraud, insider risk, malicious social engineering, MFA, MFA hacks, , MFA Methods, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Multifactor Authentication, SB Blogwatch, SIM swap, sim swap fraud, SIM swap scams, SIM swapping, sms scam, SMS scams, SMS Spam, SMS Spamming, social engineeering, T-Mobile, t-mobile breach, t-mobile data breach, T-Mobile hack, two factor authentication, two-factor-authentication.2fa, verizon, verizon data breach, Verizon Wireless
Not OK: SMS 2FA — Widespread spam targets carrier employees, as scrotes try harder to evade two-factor authentication ...
Security Boulevard
app, sideloading, MDM, Apple, IoS, SEC SIM swap X account

SEC’s X Breach Highlights Need for Better Defense Against SIM Swap Attacks

| | cyberattack, Mobile Security, Network Security, SEC, SIM swapping
The ease with which fraudsters applied the SIM swap attack on the SEC indicates the issue should be a top concern for all organizations ...
Security Boulevard
A blown out picture of FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel

FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud

| | 2 factor, 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, 2FA apps, 2FA bypass, 2FA Flaws, 2FA phishing, 2FA policies, 2FA/MFA, Cloud MFA, DUAL FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, hacking two factor, Jessica Rosenworcel, MFA, MFA hacks, mfasecurity, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), number port-out fraud, number port-out scams, Number Portability Administration Center, port-out scams, SB Blogwatch, SIM swap, sim swap fraud, SIM swap scams, SIM swapping, SMS, SMS messages, SMS phishing, sms scam, SMS scams, smshing, two-factor-authentication.2fa
Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us ...
Security Boulevard
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Attack on Kroll Puts a Spotlight on SIM Swapping

| | Cybersecurity, Mobile carriers, Phishing, SIM swapping, T-Mobile
Three cryptocurrency firms undergoing bankruptcy restructuring sustained data breaches after an employee at risk advisory firm Kroll recently fell victim to a SIM swapping scam, an attack technique that doesn’t get the ...
Security Boulevard
Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

| | A Little Sunshine, BlockFi, Data breaches, FTX, Kroll breach, Latest Warnings, SIM swapping, T-Mobile
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services ...
Krebs on Security
DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Teenage Hackers Must be Stopped: US DHS’s CSRB Report

| | 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, 2fa, 2FA bypass, 2FA Flaws, 2FA phishing, 2FA policies, 2FA/MFA, cellphone fraud, CSRB, Cyber Safety Review Board, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, DUAL FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, factor auth, homeland security, Homeland Security Presidential Directive, homelandsecurity, Lapsus$, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Multifactor Authentication, SB Blogwatch, SIM swap, sim swap fraud, SIM swap scams, SIM swapping, two factor authentication, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of Homeland Security, US Homeland Security
2FA SMS FAIL: Lapsus$ social engineers exploited weak two-factor authentication. Something must be done! (Well, this is something.) ...
Security Boulevard
U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

| | Graham Ivan Clarke, Joseph James O'Connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, PlugWalkJoe, SIM swapping, twitter hack
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years ...
Krebs on Security
Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

| | A Little Sunshine, Allison Nixon, Data breaches, International Computer Science Institute, Minecraft, Nicholas Weaver, roblox, Security Keys, SIM swapping, T-Mobile, tmo up, Unit 221B, Web Fraud 2.0
Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers ...
Krebs on Security

SIM Swapping, Crypto Theft, and Sentencing in the United States

| | Bitcoin, btc, Crypto, cybercrime, ETH, Hacking, sentencing, SIM swapping
As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases ...
CyberCrime & Doing Time
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