McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. Below, I’ll recap notable incidents from 2019, expand upon their commonalities, and explore a few lessons to learn as we enter a new year. What keeps executives up at night?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Someone leaking, stealing or selling account information can cause a sudden influx of spam emails. They send more messages when they know the account is active and possibly interested. They can use it to trace online activity , find attached accounts and uncover personal data. Check Your Bank Account. Report and Delete.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adoption of two-factor authentication has substantially increased since we began conducting this research in 2017. SMS Text Message Remains the Most Used Authentication Method SMS (85%) continues to be the most common second factor that respondents with 2FA experience have used, slightly up from in 2019 (72%).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds Veritas Backup Exec flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2023

Once Outlook receives this message it initiates a NTLM authentication with this SMB share server. The attacker can then use this connection's NTLM negotiation message and relay this authentication against other systems that support NTLM authentication. This can be used to protect high value domain admin accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2023

This is the fourth blog in the series focused on PCI DSS, written by an AT&T Cybersecurity consultant. See the first blog relating to IAM and PCI DSS here. See the second blog on PCI DSS reporting details to ensure when contracting quarterly CDE tests here. PCI DSS v4.0

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

According to Reuters, at least victims of the leak confirmed the authenticity of the messages and revealed they were targeted by Russia-linked hackers. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). ” reported the Reuters. ” reported the Reuters.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” account on Carder[.]su

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote about Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era. This wasn't so much an original work on my behalf as it was a consolidation of advice from the likes of NIST, the NCSC and Microsoft about how we should be doing authentication today. Thanks everyone!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

The ne’er-do-well who set up the account below has been paying $550 a month for a Land Lordz “basic plan” subscription at landlordz[.]site The site looks exactly like the real Airbnb, includes pictures of the requested property, and steers visitors toward signing in or to creating a new account. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

— Peter Ullrich (@PJUllrich) September 15, 2019 It feels wrong because 5 digits presents an extremely limited set of different possible combinations the password can be. However, after 3 attempts of entering an Access Code your account will be blocked. This just feels wrong but I can’t come up with a strong argument against it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

She said CopperStealer, which Proofpoint fully describes in a blog post , exhibits many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Users should turn on two-factor authentication for their service providers.”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

The experts described the attack scenario in a blog post and published a proof-of-concept code. “Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. . ” wrote the expert. and ntlmrelayx.py. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS flaw allowing WannaCry -Like attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry -like attack.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On his blog , Troy Hunt has announced a major milestone in the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. A long time coming.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These groups are having lots of discussion around the fact that many campuses are required to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their cyber liability insurance. In a recent Duo blog post, we gave an overview of cyber liability insurance. As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and “Do Your Part.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Now that it’s September, the excitement is beginning to build in earnest for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

In early 2019, we embarked on a project to improve the Duo Mobile user authentication experience. Before we do that, I wanted to take some time to share with you exactly how we’re making it easier for users to authenticate using Duo Mobile. Fighting Fraud by Humanizing the Push Screen Authentication is hard!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In a previous blog post ( [link] ) we explored the relationship between GPDR and applications in the cloud. On top of that, Gartner sites SaaS as the largest segment of the cloud market with revenue expected to reach over $85 billion in 2019. You arrive to work and check your O365 email account. Second is to manage risk.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Here are examples of these common configuration settings that reduce security risks: Disabling password-based authentication - choosing this configuration makes brute-force password attacks impossible. Disabling root account remote login - This prevents users from logging in as the root (super user) account. UTM Medium.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Jessica Alba ‘s Twitter account hacked, it posted racist and homophobic messages. Over 23 million stolen payment card data traded on the Dark Web in H1 2019.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 automatically configure multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directories during the server installation. It can also be used as an FTP server, host WCF services, and be extended to host web applications built on other platforms such as PHP. Malicious behavior.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On January 9, 2019, security vendor FireEye released its report , “Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale,” which went into far greater technical detail about the “how” of the espionage campaign, but contained few additional details about its victims. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 2017 bill, the first of its kind, will be fully implemented as of March 1st, 2019. Leading up to that date, companies have had to meet several milestones including hiring a CISO, encrypting all its non-public consumer data and enabling multi-factor authentication. Looking Ahead to 2019 and 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 4, 2021

This shift to the digital has been significant and was up 44% in the US alone from 2019 to 2020. Using technologies such as biometrics and multi-factor authentication, banks are able to reliably and quickly verify a user’s identity, so that the entire issuance process from start to finish happens in a matter of minutes, rather than days.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

The healthcare industry continued to be one of the the most targeted sector in 2021 , witnessing a 51% increase in breaches since 2019. Lack of authentication creates man-in-the-middle risks. Among all security controls, medical device security accounts for 21.5% Healthcare organizations are increasingly targeted by criminals.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Passkeys are a new, passwordless authentication method that offer a convenient authentication experience for sites and apps, using just a fingerprint, face scan or other screen lock. Learn more on how passkey works under the hood in our Google Security Blog. Figure 1: authentication success rate with passkey vs password.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The vulnerability, dubbed ProxyToken, lets attackers bypass the authentication process to access victims’ emails and configure their mailboxes. Normally, Exchange uses two sites, a front and back end, to authenticate users. billion in losses in 2019.

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