Notable corporations and organizations like NASA, McDonald’s, Microsoft and even cybersecurity companies FireEye and SolarWinds have all been victims to serious breaches in 2020-2021 alone.
Where does all of this leaked information end up? For sale on the Dark Web of course. We investigated how the Dark Web market has changed since last year, so you can understand what your personal information is worth and why you should protect it.
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Iam Waqas
21 October 2021Your OS is the basic building framework on which your device’s operations rely. It not only controls the software, memory, and processes within your device but is also responsible for a stable working of the hardware present within it.
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Shanika W.
18 October 2021According to the 2021 Cyber Threat Report by SonicWall, there is a 62% increase in Ransomware since 2019. This amount is still set to rise further as cybersecurity attacks are becoming more complex and difficult to detect. On top of all, cybersecurity attacks are even becoming more dangerous than ever before.
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Miklos Zoltan
16 October 2021Just three days after breaching Acer India, the hacker group Desorden announced it had now hacked and breached Acer Taiwan, releasing sensitive employee information. The hacker group Desorden announced today that it had hacked Acer Taiwan and found vulnerabilities on its Malaysian and Indonesian network as well.
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Miklos Zoltan
13 October 2021An unknown hacker or hacker group claims to sell access to an Argentine government network linked to internal communications and technology. The same hackers claim to posses sensitive ID card data on millions of Argentine citizens.
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Miklos Zoltan
13 October 2021Hacker group Desorden announced today on a popular hacker forum that it has hacked and breached the Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics company Acer. On a forum post today – 13 October – the hacker group Desorden announced that it had hacked and breached the Indian servers of Acer. This alleged breach affected acer.co.in – the Indian subsidiary of the Taiwanese manufacturer.
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Iam Waqas
13 October 2021The zero trust architecture is often seen as the ultimate, foolproof method of implementing information security. It emerged as an all-in-one solution to several security issues, especially as organizations rapidly adopted cloud, DevOps, and IoT-based infrastructures. The security model requires the creation of segmentation and network perimeters to ensure information security.
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Miklos Zoltan
6 October 2021Popular video game streaming service Twitch appears to have been hacked “in its entirety”, according to an anonymous hacker on 4Chan. The hacker posted a torrent file of 125G that contains source code as well as information on creator payouts. The anonymous hacker commented on 4Chan that the reason for the leak was to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space.”
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Iam Waqas
6 October 2021Attaining a secure information exchange is nothing less than a challenge within the current digital landscape. Authorities and surveillance agencies are increasingly poking their nose into our personal lives, all with the facade of maintaining law and order. But even if we manage to swallow this bitter pill for the greater good and succumb to online surveillance, there is always the looming threat of cybercriminals.
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Miklos Zoltan
4 October 2021Personal information of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking related forum. This could potentially enable cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users worldwide. This might constitute the biggest Facebook data dump to date. This seems to be unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump where 500 million users were affected.
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Petar Todorovski
1 October 2021Money is not the only resource you could provide to a business in return for a service. Some companies would take your data instead of money, and then turn it into more money than you could have paid to them. Facebook is one of those companies. They are a social network, but the network serves only as a hook for users. Under the surface, they serve as an intermediary between people and businesses that want to sell to those people.
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Miklos Zoltan
27 September 2021Private and sensitive information of more than one million members Argentina’s various military services was leaked on the dark web and various hacking forums. On September 26 2021 a user on a popular hacking related forum claimed to possess sensitive information of more than 1 million members of various military branches and institutions of Argentina.
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Miklos Zoltan
26 September 2021A paid VPN keeps you secure and private over the internet. It ensures your connection and online traffic are not vulnerable to eavesdroppers and even snoopers. This makes it harder for interested parties to know what you are up to on the internet. A VPN also helps you unblock various content by changing your geo-location and masking your IP address. But is paying for a VPN really worth it?
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Read guideData is one of the most valuable commodities in the world right now.
Companies such as Facebook and Google track you in order to sell highly personalized advertising space to the highest bidder. They know who your friends are, what you’re interested in, how likely you are to watch a certain video, your political leanings, and even which websites you visit.
Governments watch your every move by passing laws to force ISPs to provide information on every single character you type into a search engine, and every webpage you visit. They know your precise location at any time through triangulation of your mobile phone and can follow you using huge networks of CCTV cameras.
They even constantly try to undermine the very safety that protects us all from having our data wide visible to anyone who looks – strong encryption.
Hackers and cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for vulnerable systems used by companies to store users data use sophisticated social engineering attacks to trick people into handing their data over willingly.
Major data breaches happen at an alarming rate and continue to increase in frequency. A US computer is targetted in a hacking attempt every 25 seconds, and the cost of cybercrime on the global economy is set to reach $6 Trillion in 2021.
When your data falls into the wrong hands the consequences can be profound. Ranging from having to change your passwords, having your personal emails published, your website memberships becoming public knowledge, all the way up to being denied credit in the future because someone has used your name to take out a loan – this really happens.
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