Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Google has released a new extension for Chrome dubbed Password Checkup that will alert users if their username/password combinations were leaked online as part of a dump after a data breach. The tool will display a red alert box in case of a positive match and will suggest users change the password.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Talks of passkeys, passphrases, and even password less all point in one direction: eroding faith in the previously trusty password tucked under your keyboard. Today, we cover best practices for an environment that has been compromised.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 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. A flaw in Kaspersky Antivirus allowed tracking its users online. Biometric data of 1M leaked via an unsecured Suprema owned database. Once again thank you!

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's usually something to the effect of "hey, have you seen the Spotify breach", to which I politely reply with a link to my old No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked blog post (it's just the output of a small set of credentials successfully tested against their service), and we all move on. Until the Naz.API list appeared.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

In 2014, we saw a new version of it, called CryptoWall , and basically more and more of these ransomware attacks followed until it really peaked last year, with more than $5 billion dollars lost from ransomware attacks. Don’t look now but cryptojacking may be about to metastasize into the scourge of cloud services. Bilogorskiy: Exactly.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 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. Portugues hacker faces hundreds of Charges in Football Leaks case. Portuguese hacker faces hundreds of Charges in Football Leaks case. Billions of users at risk.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, we will take a closer look at what privacy data is and share details about how you can keep yourself safe. Login information for online accounts you have. The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Identity theft also affects around 1.4

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

billion viewers , equating to more than half of the global population aged four and over. Sporting events, like the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 (Qatar 2022 World Cup), attract massive attention from every corner of the world. Just think, the last edition of the tournament in Russia was watched by a combined 3.57 com instead of google[.]com),

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I wrote a free course for Varonis on GDPR earlier this year and I'm going to be referring to points from there quite a bit in this blog post. Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure. Who Owns Our Personal Data?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. Image: Malwarebytes. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. Here's what it's all about: There's Now 501,636,842 Pwned Passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

A report last week by the New York Attorney General’s Office put a spotlight on the ongoing threat of credential stuffing, a common technique used by cybercriminals that continues to spread and is helping to fuel the push for security practices that don’t involve usernames and passwords. Password Reuse.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By the first week of December, 2013, Rescator’s online store — rescator[.]la The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Chang’s.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 2, 2018

A couple of months ago, I launched version 2 of Pwned Passwords. In other words, once a password has appeared in a data breach and it ends up floating around the web for all sorts of nefarious parties to use, don't let your customers use that password! records, 2,232,284 of the passwords were in plain text. Of those 6.8M

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2022

When a message or file is encrypted, it can only be unscrambled and read if the receiver of the message has the correct password or code. Types of Encryption Algorithms. Fri, 05/13/2022 - 08:06. How Do Encryption Algorithms Work? Encryption algorithms are mathematical formulas that transform plaintext into ciphertext. Types of Encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Using this technique, the criminal collects your leaked credentials (usually stolen in a data breach) and then applies them to a host of other accounts, hoping they unlock more. A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet. Hackers count on it. Enter bots and botnets.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I'll start this post where I start many of my talks - what does a hacker look like? Or perhaps more specifically, what do people think a hacker looks like? It's probably a scary image, one that's a bit mysterious, a shady character lurking in the hidden depths of the internet. That's one bad dude! what's he actually doing on that machine?

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