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Articles and Comments By Jason Kent

Expert Commentary
Duolingo Data Breach: 2.6 Million Users At Risk Of Targeted Phishing Attacks
August 24 , 2023 by Jason Kent
The Duolingo data breach highlights the vulnerabilities posed by poorly secured APIs and the potenti...
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5.4 Million Twitter Users' Stolen Data Leaked Online, More Shared Privately
November 29 , 2022 by Jason Kent
As our research has held again and again, if you have an unauthenticated API endpoint that retrieves...
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What Expert Says On Algolia API Keys Leaked
November 23 , 2022 by Jason Kent
To set the context of how the API keys are being used in this security incident: Algolia provides AP...
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Amtrak Data Breach: Expert Commentary
June 03 , 2020 by Jason Kent
We\'ve watched credential stuffing attacks escalate over the past few months, and sympathize with th...
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Expert On New research: surge in API attacks during Lockdown
May 18 , 2020 by Jason Kent
\"Legitimate traffic represents revenue, and operations teams want to make sure their revenue- gener...
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160K Nintendo Accounts Breached - Expert Commentary
April 26 , 2020 by Jason Kent
Organizations need to pay attention to not only points of access in production environments but also...
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Security Expert re: Automated Bots Snatch Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Delivery Times
April 24 , 2020 by Jason Kent
As we all sit at home, a little bit taken aback by having to sit at home, we get curious and want to...
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Industry Leader Reaction To Princess Cruises Admits Data Breach
March 16 , 2020 by Jason Kent
With a continuing uptick in automated attacks that leverage fraudulent and misused credentials, it\'...
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Clothing Company J.Crew Says A Hacker Accessed Customer Accounts - Experts Comments
March 06 , 2020 by Jason Kent
We see this every day, an application that doesn’t have protection against rapid credential testin...
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Experts On FBI Warns Re Potential DDoS Attack On State Voter Registration Website
February 06 , 2020 by Jason Kent
Having watched how infrastructure like the Bullet Proof Proxies has grown over the last year we have...
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Security Expert Re: Major Facebook Data Partner LiveRamp Hacked To Launch Scams
January 30 , 2020 by Jason Kent
Our CTO Shreyans Mehta asked me to look into some web domains like https://rxmxtnx.com/ (don’t bu...
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267M Facebook User IDs, Phone Numbers And Names Exposed Online - Expert Commentary
December 23 , 2019 by Jason Kent
For years I yelled \"no Facebook, you cannot have my phone number\" every time it asked. Not becaus...
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2020 Cybersecurity Landscape: 100+ Experts' Predictions
December 21 , 2019 by Jason Kent
If organizations are to make it through 2020 with systems intact, they have to watch out for the eve...
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Magecart Scripts Steal Credit Card Info On Counterfeit Sneaker Sites
December 13 , 2019 by Jason Kent
Circular flows in any system are interesting to watch and see how they follow one another. The stol...
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DHS New "Top 25 Software Vulns" List - Experts Insight
November 28 , 2019 by Jason Kent
Often when these sorts of lists are refreshed we don’t see huge sweeping changes, usually there is...
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Tim Berners-Lee's New "Contract For The Web" Proposal (3 expert comments)
November 27 , 2019 by Jason Kent
I harkened this Contract for the Web to “The Hacker Manifesto” from 1986. We all want to be fre...
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Black Friday Security Tips By Experts
November 27 , 2019 by Jason Kent
\"Any time there is a reference for an event, we see an increase in fraudulent activity. With the h...
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Experts Reaction On 1.2 Billion Records Were Found Online On An Exposed, Unsecure Single Server
November 24 , 2019 by Jason Kent
That this sort of data, let alone the size of the database, is available is pretty frightening. Unt...