Articles and Comments By Chloé Messdaghi
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64% Of Businesses Suspect They’re Targets Of Nation-State Attacks- Expert Comments
August 29 , 2022 by Chloé Messdaghi
Security teams need to remember that they have governmental customers or users that have governmenta...
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97% Of Top Universities Can't Secure Email Domains – Expert Comments
August 04 , 2022 by Chloé Messdaghi
There are at least four reasons why top universities are so vulnerable: Organizations need to have s...
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Expert Insights: SAP & Yale Team Up To Promote Diversity In Cybersecurity Hiring
February 02 , 2022 by Chloé Messdaghi
This is an absolutely great mission forward. If we want to increase diversity and inclusion within c...
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Expert Reaction On Broward District Attacker Demanded $40Mil Ransom
April 05 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
This particular threat actor group is woefully underinformed, and based on their ransomware assumpti...
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Singtel Cyberattack Via 3rd Party Accellion File Sharing System – Experts Perspective
February 12 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
The Accellion file transfer product used by Sintel is 20 years old, and continues to be used by many...
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Experts Reaction On 2021 Credential Stuffing Report Highlighting Poor Security Practices
February 11 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
These statistics paint a useful picture of the crisis we’re in, but they also show that too many o...
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Hacker Breached Florida Treatment Plant To Poison The Water Supply
February 10 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
The thing we need to understand is that you don’t have to be a highly skilled attacker to be able...
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Expert On ESET Report Shows 768% Growth In RDP Attacks
February 10 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
I love that they actually got the statistic – 768% increase in remote desktop attacks. That’s de...
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mHealth App APIs Vulnerable To Attacks Exposing PII & PHI - Experts Insight
February 10 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
mHealth apps – even before the pandemic – have had real problems with security. Unfortunately, m...
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Expert Insight: Bykea Delivery Svc. Unencrypted Server Leaks 400 Million Customers’ Data
February 01 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
This is a case study in why every government needs to step in and enforce some fundamental data priv...
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Data Privacy Protection Day (Thursday 28th) - Experts Comments
January 29 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
There are many layers to data privacy, but one of them centers around a fundamental need for governm...
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How Much Are You Worth On The Dark Web? (Credit Card, PayPal, SSN)
January 25 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
I find it really fascinating that in the U.S., we have the cheapest fullz at about $8/record. We kno...
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Cyber Criminals Left Stolen Phishing Credentials Exposed To Google Searches
January 22 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
It’s interesting that they are targeting construction – that’s an industry that hasn’t recei...
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A Chinese Hacking Group Is Stealing Airline Passenger Details
January 22 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
The questions to ask are who are they, who are they watching, and why? It’s a given that this type...
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FreakOut Botnet Targets Linux- Experts Offer Perspective
January 22 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
This FreakOut malware is just at the beginning of its infancy, but it’s a great reminder that even...
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Healthcare Web App Attacks Up 51%; 498 Attacks/month, Per Org. - Experts Perspectives
January 14 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
Healthcare was hard hit in 2020 and 2021 looks like it will bring more of the same. The COVID19 pa...
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Experts Insight On UN’s Environmental Program Breach-100K+ Employee Records Leaked
January 12 , 2021 by Chloé Messdaghi
Our applause to Sakura Samurai’s team – what they did was worthy of it! This was successful beca...
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EU’s Digital Services Act And Digital Markets Act – Experts' Perspectives
December 17 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The EU is showing leadership here in recognizing that we need to collectively retrace our steps beca...
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Spotify Pushes Pw. Reset After Leak - Gurucul, Point3 And YouAttest Perspectives
December 14 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Spotify is saying that only a small percentage of customers are affected, but their customer base is...
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Randstad Attack - Expert Insights
December 08 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
As far as we know, Randstad never received a ransom note related to this attack, which is interestin...
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Philly Food Bank Hit With $1m Cyber Attack
December 03 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
In the last week alone, some 5.6 million households in the US struggled for food. Local food banks a...
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DarkIRC Bot Hits Oracle WebLogic vuln, Steals Bitcoin, Hijacks Browsers – Experts Perspective
December 02 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The fix for this vulnerability was issued two months ago and updated last month. We don’t know if...
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Experts Insight On Baltimore County Public Schools Fall Victim To A Ransomware Attack
December 01 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
This is a case of ransomware that disrupted anything that was connected to Windows-based devices. We...
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New Zealand's Privacy Laws 2020 - Expert Insight
December 01 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
I say “good job!” to New Zealand. I wish the fine was a little bit higher, but this will definit...
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Experts On Manchester United Hit By 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack
November 24 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
This is a perfect example of how better planning can be less disruptive. As a fan of Manchester Unit...
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Worst Passwords Of 2020 – Experts Perspectives
November 19 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Re the NordPass findings of worst passwords of 2020 - where after analyzing 275,699,516 passwords le...
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Cybersecurity Experts On CISA Announcement On Hackers Bypassing MFA To Access Cloud Services
November 18 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The dismissal of Christopher Krebs as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen...
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US Mental Health Provider Email Breach; Experts Reaction
November 16 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Mental health professionals conduct some of the most sensitive conversations and deal with some of t...
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Microsoft Advises To Stop Using Phone-Based 2FA – Security Expert Reaction
November 13 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Passwords with less than 25 characters are easier to break into, and the highly organized and catego...
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Animal Jam Kids' Virtual World Hit By Data Breach, Impacting 46m Accounts: Expert Commentary
November 13 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
ShinyHunters did it again. Fresh off of their leak of a massive Mashable database.
It’s importa...
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Experts Reaction On Latest Mashable Data Breach
November 10 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
I’ll start with the fact that I think Mashable did a pretty good job after this breach – they to...
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Experts Insight On Hotel Booking Firm Leaks Info From Millions Of Guests
November 10 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
When it comes to reservations sites like Booking.com and Hotels.com, they all need to be better secu...
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Ransomware hits Brazil’s Superior Court & other Federal agencies – Security Experts Perspectives
November 09 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
It’s important to understand that the Brazil Court system moved quickly and correctly. They immedi...
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New Gitpaste-12 Worming Botnet Spreads via GitHub And Pastebin – Experts Perspectives
November 06 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
It\'s called Gitpaste-12 because of the usage of GitHub, Pastebin and 12 known attack modules and po...
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Experts On RegretLocker Ransomware Strikes Windows Virtual Desktops
November 05 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Unfortunately, this ransomware has broken through the speed-of-execution barrier for encrypting virt...
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Home Depot Data Breach/Leak – Experts Insight And Next Steps
November 02 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We don’t really know how it happened but it sounds like possibly an internal error. If one of thos...
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FBI Alert: Imminent Threat Of Ransomware Attacks On U.S. Healthcare – Experts Comments
October 30 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The reason these attackers are going after hospitals is because they’re easy money and easy to att...
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Security Strategy Expert On US Warning To Iranian And Russian On Cyber-driven Election Interference Attempts
October 26 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We need to remember that the real danger in election tampering up to this point has arisen from misi...
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NSA Warns Chinese State-sponsored Actors Are Exploiting Known Vulns – Security Expert Perspective
October 21 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We definitely saw an increase in this situation last year and it’s ongoing. They’re trying to co...
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Experts Insight On Barnes & Noble Hack
October 16 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We don’t know how this occurred but it significant and a bit curious that the email notifying cust...
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Microsoft take-down of Trickbot ransomware bot, Security Experts Reacted inline with Election Security
October 14 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Microsoft has truly done an important service in thwarting Trickbot – it’s especially important...
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MosaicRegressor UEFI malware defies deletion - Experts Perspective
October 09 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
There’s been some speculation on who’s behind this particular malware but unless and until it’...
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Emotet Malware Named One Of Today's Most Prevalent Threats
October 08 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The resurgence of Emotet this year has been particularly dangerous and governments around the world...
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Ransomware Attack On Health Tech Firm Hits C-19 Clinical Trials - Security Experts Perspectives
October 06 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We don’t know how the ransomware attack happened – if it was caused by phishing, no surprise. Th...
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TikTok, WeChat Banned – Privacy And Cybersecurity Experts Reaction
September 21 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
There are many layers to this issue but it comes down to a fundamental need for surveillance reform...
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Razer data leak – Experts Reaction
September 15 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
It’s obvious that some three weeks passed between the time a hacker came across the misconfigured...
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Experts Reaction On Staples Data Breach
September 15 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
For Staples to say that customer order data is non-sensitive is ridiculous. Any social engineer atta...
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Experts On “Giggle” user community exposes womens’ images, location data, and more – ignored vuln. warnings, uses flawed verification
September 11 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
This is an example of why every company should have a vulnerability disclosure program. We see too m...
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Expert Comment: Emotet Attacks
September 10 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Emotet has been around since 2014 and is usually spread through an email that contains a doc or mali...
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BlueLeaks Exposed Some COVID-19 Patients’ IDs - Cybersecurity Experts Perspective
August 24 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We don’t know how the attacker or group of attackers got into the data or what vulnerability was e...
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Canada Revenue Agency shuts down after cyberattack - hacked login credentials at fault
August 18 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Canada has been dealing with cyber-attacks recently, and this is the third attack on the Canadian Re...
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IcedID Banking Trojan: Expert Perspective
August 17 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
IcedID is a particularly interesting malware in that it first checks to see if a victim is working i...
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Cybersecurity Expert Reacted On Latest SANS Data Breach
August 12 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We don’t know if the employee who clicked the bad link (or links) was on the security team or if t...
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Experts On Arrests In Twitter's Largest Security Breach, Steps To Protect Against Mobile Phishing Fraud
August 04 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
As we’re learning, one of the young men arrested today was previously investigated back in April,...
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Expert Commentary: Drizly Breach And Its Implications
August 03 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Although Drizly.com claims they weren’t aware that their data was compromised until July, there’...
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Cybersecurity experts on research findings on poor cybersecurity practices of US election Officials
July 28 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
It is hard for under-funded counties to run their own email server and services – I recommend they...
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Expert Insight On Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Sold On Dark Web
July 24 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
It appears that once again, we’re seeing how important it is to keep your security platforms and s...
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Expert Reaction On CouchSurfing Investigates Data Breach
July 24 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
The good news is that they are aware of the situation, were forthcoming, and got help – both from...
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Cybersecurity Experts on findings of Skybox Security 2020 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report
July 23 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Ransomware and phishing attacks have increased during the current pandemic, especially with the econ...
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Experts Insight On Major US Twitter Accounts Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
July 16 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
If these hacks were via a third party, this is an important reminder that customers should always as...
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Expert Reaction On Millions of LiveAuctioneers Passwords for Sale
July 14 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
This company has completely failed its customers. I went on the site and started an account with the...
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Experts On IBM's Cyber Resilient Org Report
July 02 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Another factor must be taken into consideration: the human element. We see companies paying for solu...
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ACLU's Facial Reco Complaint Against Detroit Police For Tech-Driven Wrongful Arrest
June 26 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
When there is not a diverse team of people on the product development team for such a sensitive tech...
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Experts Insight On Honda Confirms Its Network Has Been Hit By Cyberattack
June 10 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
We’ve all seen global corporations put strong security stacks in place and even so, fall victim to...
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Expert Comments On Brand-impersonation Spear Phishing Attacks
June 01 , 2020 by Chloé Messdaghi
Many attackers know that if they want to attack someone specific, it’s more likely to succeed if t...
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