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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

January 17, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, Breadcrumbs, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Hold Security, Mega.nz, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sanixer, Troy Hunt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:11:08 +0000

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it “the largest collection ever of breached data found.” But in an interview with the apparent seller, KrebsOnSecurity learned that it is not even close to the largest gathering of stolen data, and that it is at least two to three years old.

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A week in security (September 3 – 9)

September 10, 2018 admin a week in security, Android, Brighton Police, fake, Fire Eye, five eyes, Fortnite, Mac App Store, mastercard, Mega.nz, protonmail, security cameras, Security world, spyware, Talos, Techcrunch, tesla, WannaCry, Week in security

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:44:57 +0000

A roundup of the security news from September 3 – 9, including spyware going mainstream, Mac App Store apps stealing and abusing customer data, and Fortnite install concerns.

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Browser Extensions: Are They Worth the Risk?

September 5, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, add-ons, browser extensions, chrome, Firefox, google, Latest Warnings, Mega.nz, Three Rules of Online Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:55:08 +0000

Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that any usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and forwarded to a rogue server in Ukraine. This attack serves as a fresh reminder that legitimate browser extensions can and periodically do fall into the wrong hands, and that it makes good security sense to limit your exposure to such attacks by getting rid of extensions that are no longer useful or actively maintained by developers.