Articles and Comments By Anurag Kahol

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IKEA Suffering Ongoing "Reply-Chain" Email Attack
December 01 , 2021 by Anurag Kahol
The days of basic phishing schemes have more or less passed. Modern phishing attacks are very well t...
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GoDaddy Data Breach Impacts Over A Million Users, Experts Reactions
November 24 , 2021 by Anurag Kahol
With many internet users holding dozens of online accounts across various services, it has become mo...
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Weir Group Suffers Ransomware Attack - Security Expert Comments
October 12 , 2021 by Anurag Kahol
In this ransomware attack, the engineering company were forced to isolate and shut down their IT sys...
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Conti Ransomware Group Leak Irish Patients' Data on Dark Web - Expert Comment
May 20 , 2021 by Anurag Kahol
Healthcare organisations have been a major target since the start of the pandemic, and as a result n...
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Expert Comment on Irish Health Service Ransomware Attack
May 17 , 2021 by Anurag Kahol
Healthcare organisations have been a major target since the start of the pandemic, and as a result n...
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Hoard Of Spotify User Data Exposed By Hackers' Careless Security Practices - Experts Reaction
November 24 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
A staggering 53% of consumers admit to reusing the same password across multiple sites, even knowing...
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Animal Jam Kids' Virtual World Hit By Data Breach, Impacting 46m Accounts: Expert Commentary
November 13 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
The personally identifiable information (PII) and financial information connected to users’ gaming...
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Experts Insight On Hotel Booking Firm Leaks Info From Millions Of Guests
November 10 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Every year, hotel and booking platforms collect sensitive consumer data and store the personally ide...
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Experts Opinion On Amazon Sacking Insiders Over Data Leak
October 27 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
A recent Bitglass study found that 73% of organisations believed insider attacks had become more fre...
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Wisepay: School Payments Service Hit By Cyber-Attack
October 09 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Payment card-skimming malware continues to be a security challenge for retailers around the globe. U...
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Experts On UK's HMRC 'Bombarded' By 5,000 Malicious Email Attacks Every Day
October 06 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
While phishing attacks are not a groundbreaking threat and there is an elevated level of awareness a...
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Funding boost to help healthcare suppliers improve cyber security: Expert Commentary
September 10 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Healthcare organisations are major targets and will see any and all lapses in security exploited by...
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Experts Insight On Ransomware attack on Argentina federal agency
September 07 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
To prevent future ransomware attacks and safeguard highly sensitive information, federal agencies mu...
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Security Experts On Carnival Hit With Ransomware Attack Exposing Data
August 18 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
The travel industry is an extremely attractive target to cybercriminals, as they can collect and sto...
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Hacker "NightLion" Steals 8,200+ Databases From Cybersecurity Firm
July 15 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Outsourcing services provides significant advantages for growing businesses, but relying upon third-...
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Expert Commentary: Casino App Clubillion Leaks PII On “Millions” Of Users
July 09 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
According to Gartner, 99% of cloud security mishaps will continue to be a result of misconfiguration...
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Expert Commentary: Unsecured OneClass Database Exposes 1M Students
June 30 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Leaving a database vulnerable can pose major threats to data security, data subject wellbeing, regul...
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Experts Reaction On 26 Million LiveJournal Credentials Leaked Online
May 28 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
It does not take much effort for outsiders to find unsecured databases and access sensitive informat...
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UK airline easyJet data breach impacts 9M customers - expert commentary
May 20 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
The airline industry is an extremely attractive target to cybercriminals, as they can collect and st...
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Experts Commentary On GoDaddy Informs Customers Of Data Breach From October
May 13 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
This security incident impacting GoDaddy customers underscores why organisations need to have full v...
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MobiFriends Data Breach: Expert Commentary
May 12 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Dating apps and sites store massive troves of personally identifiable information (PII) on users, in...
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Expert Comment On News: Institute Of International Education (IIE) Leaks Student Personal Data With Two Exposed Databases
February 17 , 2020 by Anurag Kahol
Managing students’ medical forms, passport scans, visa documents as well as other highly sensitive...
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2020 Cybersecurity Landscape: 100+ Experts' Predictions
December 10 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
Threat actors are always enhancing their current tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) as well...
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Experts On Vistaprint Database Breach
November 27 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
“Regardless of the number of individuals affected, the type of information exposed leaves Vistapri...
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DoorDash Data Breach Impacts 4.9M Users - Experts Comments
September 30 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
Unfortunately, customers, delivery workers, and merchants impacted by this DoorDash incident are now...
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Expert Comment: Heyyo Dating App Leaked Users' Personal Data, Photos etc.
September 25 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
It does not take much effort for outsiders to find unsecured databases and access sensitive informat...
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Scotiabank's 'Muppet-grade Security' And Tortoiseshell Infecting IT Providers To Hit Their Customers
September 19 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
Unfortunately, seeing a report about an unsecured database is no longer an unusual event. The number...
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Instagram Confirmed Security Vulnerability - Commentary
September 13 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
There is an important distinction between what a user chooses to make public, such as a unique handl...
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198 Million Car-Buyer Records Exposed - Experts Comments
September 12 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
There are tools designed to detect abusable misconfigurations within IT assets like Elasticsearch da...
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Experts Comments: Data Leak of 2.5 Million Customers Of Cosmetics Giant Yves Rocher
September 04 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
It does not take much effort for outsiders to find unsecured databases and access sensitive informat...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories Alerts 114,000 Customers Of Data Breach
August 29 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
Healthcare organizations remain a top target for hackers, as exemplified by the American Medical Col...
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MoviePass Exposes 161M Records
August 21 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
The type of data exposed by MoviePass puts customers at risk of highly targeted phishing attacks and...
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700k Customer Records Leaked Choice Hotels Data Breach
August 15 , 2019 by Anurag Kahol
There are 3 pillars of information security - people, process and technology and, unfortunately, thi...