Articles and Comments By Mounir Hahad

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Experts Warning And Advice On Black Friday Threats
November 25 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
To protect themselves on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and throughout the holiday shopping season, her...
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2020 Black Friday/Cyber Monday - Likely Magecart Attack Increase Due To Plug-in Vulns – Experts Perspective
November 20 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
E-commerce and retailers are at substantial and increased risk of Magecart attacks this year, largel...
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Microsoft Advises To Stop Using Phone-Based 2FA – Security Expert Reaction
November 13 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
I wouldn’t sound the alarm for everyone using phone-based 2FA. No security is perfect. A determine...
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Experts On RegretLocker Ransomware Strikes Windows Virtual Desktops
November 05 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Going after virtual disks seems like a niche market for threat actors. Most ransomware does not need...
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Home Depot Data Breach/Leak – Experts Insight And Next Steps
November 02 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
We often think of data breaches as the consequence of a threat actor infiltrating a network and gain...
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Albion Games Online Forum Suffers Data Breach - Experts Insight
October 20 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Most professionals wouldn’t look twice at a game portal data breach that only exposed usernames an...
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Swatch shuts down some technology systems after cyber attack
October 01 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Swatch watchmaker’s CIRT team gets it: time is of the essence, no pun intended. Responding quickly...
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Canada Revenue Agency shuts down after cyberattack - hacked login credentials at fault
August 18 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Credentials reuse is a big issue getting a lot of smart people to think about getting rid of passwor...
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Expert On Bitcoin Thieves Use Malicious Tor Relays To Hijack Traffic With SSL Stripping Attacks
August 12 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
People think that TOR is a bullet proof anonymity tool. It’s not. It has been known that sometimes...
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Experts Reaction On 900 Pulse Secure Enterprise VPN Passwords Leaked
August 06 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
The immediate focus of every organization should be to ensure no future unauthorized logins occur. A...
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Experts Insight On Major US Twitter Accounts Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
July 17 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
This is a very serious hack that could have resulted in a lot of damage in financial markets should...
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Over Half Of Work-from-home Staff Believe Riskier Cybersec Behaviors Are Ok - Experts Reaction
June 01 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Enterprises should make sure cyber security remains a top priority and not let their guard down. It...
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Expert Insight On Ramsay Malware Targets Air-Gapped Networks
May 15 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
It seems this spyware platform is really worried about being detected by traditional network securit...
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Experts Insight On Tupperware Website Hacked And Infected With Payment Card Skimmer
March 26 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
This does indeed sound like the work of a new cyber gang that has not scaled operations yet. The dom...
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Over 1 Billion Medical Records Exposed Online - Experts Comments
January 14 , 2020 by Mounir Hahad
Generally speaking, in this kind of situation, it’s the configuration of the network which is at f...
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2020 Cybersecurity Landscape: 100+ Experts' Predictions
December 21 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
There are three major events in 2020 that will certainly be a magnet to cyber criminals and nation s...
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LifeLabs Reveals Data Breach, Pays Ransom To Secure Personal Info Of 15M People
December 19 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
This kind of breach has become rather commonplace, unfortunately. Your information does not need to...
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Juniper Networks, KnowBe4 re Chrome 79 Security Features & Fixes
December 13 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
Let’s talk about the Chrome synced password checkup tool. First of all, never store a password in...
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Experts Reaction On 1.2 Billion Records Were Found Online On An Exposed, Unsecure Single Server
November 24 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
Unfortunately our data is more and more being handled by small companies with little expertise in se...
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Experts On American Cancer Society’s Online Store Infected With Credit Card Stealing Malware
October 29 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
The attackers had a way to compromise the server and modify its code manually. It is unfortunate tha...
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Commenst On Phishing Attacks Using Google’s URL Decoding
September 27 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
Email gateways have matured enough to perform dynamic content inspection: a URL in an email link is...
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Silicon Valley Grand Jury Election Security Report
July 29 , 2019 by Mounir Hahad
The Grand Jury is right about the necessary improvements to secure access to critical accounts, whet...