Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2022

Social Blade Confirms Data Breach Exposing PII on the Dark Web

The company confirmed the data does not include any credit card information

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Social Blade Confirms Data Breach Exposing PII on the Dark Web

The company confirmed the data does not include any credit card information

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Data breach at Social Blade confirmed. Hacker offers to sell database on underground website

Social media analytics service Social Blade has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach, after a hacker offered its user database for sale on an underground criminal website. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Data breach at Social Blade confirmed. Hacker offers to sell database on underground website

Social media analytics service Social Blade has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach, after a hacker offered its user database for sale on an underground criminal website. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day

The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1.” News: Apple said security researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which investigates nation state-backed spyware, hacking and cyberattacks, discovered and reported the WebKit bug. WebKit bugs are often exploited when a […]

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  • December 16, 2022

GitHub Announces Free Secret Scanning for All Public Repositories

GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service to all public repositories on the code hosting platform for free. “Secret scanning alerts notify you directly about leaked secrets in your code,” the company said, adding it’s expected to complete the rollout by the end of January 2023.  Secret scanning is designed to examine repositories […]

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  • December 16, 2022

Cyber Security Is Not a Losing Game – If You Start Right Now

Reality has a way of asserting itself, irrespective of any personal or commercial choices we make, good or bad. For example, just recently, the city services of Antwerp in Belgium were the victim of a highly disruptive cyberattack.  As usual, everyone cried “foul play” and suggested that proper cybersecurity measures should have been in place. […]

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  • December 16, 2022

Secure Email Threat Defense: Providing critical insight into business risk

Attackers specifically craft business email compromise (BEC) and phishing emails using a combination of malicious techniques, expertly selected from an ever-evolving bag of tricks. They’ll use these techniques to impersonate a person or business that’s well-known to the targeted recipient and hide their true intentions, while attempting to avoid detection by security controls. As a […]

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