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Hackers are trying to sell 26 million LiveJournal account credentials following a reported data breach that happened years ago. Following the theft of LiveJournal's user database, multiple ads were posted by Dark Web data brokers, according to ZDNet.
Last week, application security company ImmuniWeb released a new free tool to monitor and measure an organization's exposure on the Dark Web. To improve the decision-making process for cybersecurity professionals, the free tool crawls Dark Web marketplaces, hacking forums, and Surface Web resources such as Pastebin or GitHub to provide you with a classified schema of your data being offered for sale or leaked.
Last week, application security company ImmuniWeb released a new free tool to monitor and measure an organization's exposure on the Dark Web. To improve the decision-making process for cybersecurity professionals, the free tool crawls Dark Web marketplaces, hacking forums, and Surface Web resources such as Pastebin or GitHub to provide you with a classified schema of your data being offered for sale or leaked.
A database containing credentials from more than 26 million LiveJournal accounts has been leaked online and is being sold on the Dark Web and hacker forums. A now-defunct data-leak tracking service, We Leak Info, tweeted in July 2019 about a 2014 leak of 33 million LiveJournal accounts.
US lawmakers will get another vote on whether the FBI must get a warrant before agents can search Americans' search and web-browsing histories. One cause for concern is the lack of requirement, in section 215 of the legislation, for the Feds to get a search warrant before requesting access to people's internet activities from their ISPs.
US lawmakers will get another vote on whether the FBI must get a warrant before agents can search Americans' search and web-browsing histories. One cause for concern is the lack of requirement, in section 215 of the legislation, for the Feds to get a search warrant before requesting access to people's internet activities from their ISPs.
It didn't: the amendment to curtail warrantless web history search missed passage by only one vote when four senators didn't show up for the Senate's vote. In a nutshell, Section 215 currently allows the government to collect the web browsing and internet searches of Americans without a warrant.
Sometimes the term is used in the literal sense of dark to describe a part of the web where the network traffic going to and from it is effectively invisible or untrackable, so that it is dark in the sense of being unilluminated. There you have it: dark as in evil, and dark as in unilluminated.
Web security company ImmuniWeb this week announced a free tool that allows businesses and government organizations to check their dark web exposure. Integrated into ImmuniWeb's Domain Security Test, the new feature provides organizations of all types with the option to check their current exposure by simply entering their main website URL. ImmuniWeb, which says it is serving an average of 50,000 free tests daily, is keeping an eye on hacking forums and underground marketplaces, as well as dedicated IRC channels and Telegram chats, paste websites and other locations on the deep, dark, and surface web where stolen data is offered, traded, or advertised.
There is a flood of interest in accessing corporate networks on the dark web, according to Positive Technologies. Criminals mostly sell access to industrial companies, professional services companies, finance, science and education, and IT. Criminals targeting major companies.