Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default. We called it Why No HTTPS? and I then roll the HTTP sites and HTTPS sites list into the Why No HTTPS? In that regard, it's quite simple. Except it's not really.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

By secure, I mean that they didn’t use HTTPS. Sites you bought goods from tended to use HTTPS so your credit card number couldn’t be intercepted as it traversed the Internet. People would often say that it wasn’t really dangerous if blogs or information sites weren’t using HTTPS. What’s the big deal? What changed?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). So the search giant has been leading the push to get 100% of websites to jettison HTTP and replace it with HTTPS. This is a community effort.

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

The CVE-2023-23397 vulnerability From a technical point of view, the vulnerability is a critical EoP that is triggered when an attacker sends an Outlook object (task, message, or calendar event) within an extended MAPI property that contains a UNC path to an SMB share on a threat actor-controlled server, resulting in a Net-NTLMv2 hash leak.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Look for the “S” in HTTPS. If HTTPS sounds familiar, it should – many URLs begin with “https” instead of just “http” to indicate that they are encrypted. Whether you’re logging in, making a payment, or just entering your email address, check that the URL starts with “https.”. Check for a website privacy policy.

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Hot for Security

MAY 11, 2021

It turns out that the Tor browser is not HTTPS-only, which means that it can also display HTTP. The researcher also published several possible mitigations, such as moving Tor to an HTTPS-only version, but that isn’t easy to achieve right now.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Look for the “https” in the website’s URL—it means there’s some level of encryption.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2021

HTTPS Everywhere. HTTPS Everywhere ensures that you always connect to sites using secure HTTPS encryption instead of HTTP. It forces sites to use HTTPS if they offer it can block access to sites that don’t. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting URLs so they always use [link].

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 23, 2022

Not just all HIBP services, but everything else I run in Azure from Hack Yourself First to Why No HTTPS. " }, "uri":"[link] "protocol":"HTTPS", "resourceType":"Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices" } Well, there's the problem. But this is a storage account - why?

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Troy Hunt

JULY 31, 2018

We're already seeing some sites on the Day 1 list go HTTPS (although frankly, if the site is that large and they've done it that quickly then I doubt it's because of our list), and really, that's the best possible outcome of this project - seeing websites drop off because an insecure request is now redirected to a secure one. So what gives?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 2, 2023

Several researchers have provided methods to make the hunt easy. Disable web traffic Disable all HTTP and HTTPs traffic to your MOVEit Transfer environment. More specifically, modify firewall rules to deny HTTP and HTTPs traffic to MOVEit Transfer on ports 80 and 443 until the patch can be applied.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Richards added: “It is also worth noting that there is no https setting to secure credentials in transit. A more desirable form of mitigation would be to change the firmware completely but as you said providers are lax about pushing updates and there is no easy way for an end user to do this themselves.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Getting started is easy. A few simple changes to your devices and accounts can help discourage cyber criminals from trying to access your data. This short guide presents some quick measures you can take to protect your privacy and keep your personal info safe. Prevent Data Breaches. and enter your email. Social Security numbers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Seems like Cyber fraudsters are increasingly targeting the UK populace in a hope of making easy money. Shop only on trusted websites and use payment gateways that have HTTPS in the browsing bar. . And as the shopping season fast approaching the said tactic of fake promotional campaign is said to surge by 50-60 percent in coming weeks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Three Easy Ways to Improve DevSecOps with Thales and Red Hat divya Tue, 10/17/2023 - 14:47 For many DevOps enthusiasts, the need to insert security considerations directly into the development cycle was often overlooked. However, using Kubernetes is not always easy and typically involves a steep learning curve.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

Let’s discuss how AWS makes it easy to encrypt data wherever it may be. However, to enable this feature policies may need to be updated to restrict HTTP and only permit HTTPS connectivity. To see an example of how AWS S3 can enforce HTTPS connections, click here: Enforce TLS 1.2 coffee shop WiFi).

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2023

After starting, the Trojan creates log files and attempts to obtain a C&C server IP address via DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), thus making the DNS request indistinguishable from a regular HTTPS request and hiding it from traffic monitoring. The p.plist (or GoogleHelperUpdater.plist) is a configuration file. akamaized[.]ca

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This article covers the traffic analysis of the most common network protocols, for example, ICMP, ARP, HTTPS, TCP, etc. Following the above syntax, it is easy to create a dynamic capture filter, where: proto = desired protocol. HTTPS traffic analysis. This bloe was written by an independent guest blogger. offset = header value.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 26, 2022

Because Zendesk is an online business, it makes setting up new accounts very easy. Because Zendesk is an online business, it makes setting up new accounts very easy. item stopped due to unpaid customs fee.” So while other tactics have evolved, poor English has persisted.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. In part 2 , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, low bandwidth devices. Let's dive into it.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

Just because a website is HTTPs, does not guarantee a site’s legitimacy. It’s easier than ever to set up a free HTTPs certificate, which is why manually navigating to websites is important. There are many balance check sites out there and it’s not easy to figure out which ones are legit. Shall we take a look?

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Google Security

MARCH 9, 2021

The mission of sigstore is to make it easy for developers to sign releases and for users to verify them. Just like how Let’s Encrypt provides free certificates and automation tooling for HTTPS, sigstore provides free certificates and tooling to automate and verify signatures of source code. We couldn’t agree more.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 31, 2024

ATS is a security mechanism that forces the application to use HTTPS, preventing unencrypted communications. It makes the app susceptible to interception where an attacker could force a victim to use the unencrypted HTTP protocol while forwarding the data to the real server, encrypted. It affected all users of the app though.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 7, 2022

A brute force attack succeeds when an online user utilizes the same passwords for several online services, making it as an easy to open doorway to hackers. While using banking services, always ensure to login to a HTTPS website- only to avoid punching your credentials into fake ones. To those unaware of such attacks, here’s a gist.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

But as time has gone by and HTTPS has become increasingly ubiquitous and obtainable by all, the veracity of that advice has taken a serious hit. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too. But the option does not exist.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

It allows the BIOS to connect to Dell’s servers via HTTPS to download an image of the operating system. Dell also provides workarounds to disable both the BIOSConnect and HTTPS Boot features. The attack is possible because TLS connection from BIOSConnect will accept any valid wildcard certificate. ” concludes the report.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

It includes support for Web Applications over HTTP or HTTPs, Remote Desktops over RDP, Secure Shell (SSH) servers, and now file sharing over the Server Messaging Block. Try Duo for Free With our free 30-day trial , see how easy it is to get started with Duo and secure your workforce, from anywhere and on any device.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2023

That makes it easy to use on-premises or in the cloud. What’s even worse is that it is easy to exploit the vulnerability. Oracle always strongly recommends that you do not expose non-HTTPS traffic (T3/T3s/LDAP/IIOP/IIOPs) outside of the external firewall. Build 20230219. CVE-2023-21839 affects Oracle WebLogic Server.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In fact, our 2020 Threat Report found that impersonators are now imitating legitimate business websites to release malicious payloads or steal data, and a shocking 27% of phishing sites use HTTPS to trick the user into clicking phishing links, which makes these attacks even more dangerous. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Veracode Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Instead, this is about applying a wrong cryptographic process or a surrogate, such as: Using an outdated and weak hashing algorithm (think SHA1 or MD5), which makes cracking hashed data quick and easy once the data has been exposed. Sensitive data exposure is currently at number 3 in the??? OWASP Top 10 ???list What is sensitive data?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something. Thank you for your nice service, by the way!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Small businesses are valuable targets, but they also tend to be easy ones. This is why you need to ensure your WAF is compatible with an SSL certificate and supports HTTPS to encrypt such data. A web application firewall — also known as a WAF — is basically a website’s gatekeeper. Why Are Small Businesses a Target?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The main characteristic of “trapdoor” functions is that they are easy to compute in one direction, yet difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse ) without special information. . Symmetric encryption heavily relies on the fact that the keys must be kept secret. The key pair is based on prime numbers of long length.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I assumed Baidu got the lion's share of the votes by virtue of the HTTP address not being served over the secure scheme, even though HTTPS has got absolutely nothing to do with the trustworthiness of the contents of a website. Turns out it was the third one: The answer is number 3. That’s how [link] became [link]. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

So far we haven’t seen any indications that this patch is so easy to circumvent. Microsoft published mitigation instructions that disabled the installation of new ActiveX controls, but this turned out to be easy to work around for attackers. Azure was the subject of five CVE’s, one of them listed as critical. PrintNightmare.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. As a result, those who are unfamiliar might get the impression that it's no big deal, but this is a far cry from being the case.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An example shown below demonstrates how a device or an application performs an HTTPS service request in step 1 that can trigger an update to a change in state to a policy server in step 2. Zero Trust : as the name implies, is the strategy by which organizations trust nothing implicitly and verify everything continuously. OpenID Connect.

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