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Krebs says the SEC is investigating First American data exposure

In May Krebs broke the news of the data exposure, providing an example of a private record he obtained without providing security authentication. The exposed documents included bank account numbers ... read more

iNSYNQ Ransomware Attack Started With Phishing Email: Report

writes in a post on his “Krebs on Security” blog. 'iNSYNQ ultimately declined to pay the ransom demand, and it is still working to completely restore customer access to files.' By Donna Goodison ... read more

Gas pump thieves should be very afraid of this security app that detects credit card skimmers

According to Krebs on Security’s Brian Krebs, who have given the app the piratical nickname of “the scourge of pump skimmers,” the researchers had volunteers collect Bluetooth scans at 1,185 gas ... read more

Krebs on Security

Now it’s official. The particular website that was hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that we covered a few days ago was that of white-hat security journalist [Brian ... read more

First American security flaw leaked 885 million real estate documents

First American Financial Corporation left as many as 885 million real estate documents dating as far back as 2003 exposed, according to Krebs on Security. The company, one of the largest real estate ... read more

Report: Facebook stored user passwords unencrypted for years (updated)

Facebook's (FB-0.6%) on the move again, dipping into the red, as the Krebs On Security site reports that the company stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext for years. That's a ... read more

Facebook employees had access to private passwords for hundreds of millions of people

This time, it turns out Facebook was storing the personal passwords for hundreds of millions of Facebook users unencrypted on the company servers, according to a report from the security publication ... read more

Why you need to change your Facebook password now

Much like Brexit, chats around Facebook's privacy policies are as complicated as they are long. Following a report by Krebs on Security, Wired say the social media giant has acknowledged a bug in its ... read more

Krebs on Security

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program ... read more

Items Tagged with 'krebs on security'

First American shut down external access to an application on Friday after cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs alerted the title insurer that millions of records were exposed online. "The digitized ... read more

Krebs on Security

Today, Krebs on Security has revealed that Facebook was storing between 200 and 600 million Facebook users passwords in plain text, going back to as early as 2012. While Facebook claims to have found ... read more