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World Password Day is Dead. Long Live World Password Day!

The State of Security

In 2002 I sat in a local bookstore in Jackson Hole, WY that offered a few Internet-connected computers for hourly use. After chatting with the owner and petting the resident store dog, I took a few guesses at the password protecting these computers. The post World Password Day is Dead. The post World Password Day is Dead.

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World Password Day is Dead. Long Live World Password Day!

Security Boulevard

In 2002 I sat in a local bookstore in Jackson Hole, WY that offered a few Internet-connected computers for hourly use. After chatting with the owner and petting the resident store dog, I took a few guesses at the password protecting these computers. The post World Password Day is Dead. The post World Password Day is Dead.

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Implementing Password Security

SiteLock

Seems like every few months another blogger or security maven laments the passing of the password, a security tool that has outlived its usefulness and should now be replaced with something more of the times, more effective, more secure. And while the password might be on life-support, it’s not quite gone. That’s right.

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A bug is about to confuse a lot of computers by turning back time 20 years

Malwarebytes

This would mean Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers using the broken GPSD versions would think it’s March 2002 instead of October 2021. Authentication mechanisms such as Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) and Kerberos also rely heavily on time. How bad is it? Various businesses and organizations rely on these systems.

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Do You Trust Your SIEM?

Anton on Security

you trust the SIEM to map the events to the correct category and not to confuse “password guessing” with “logon failure” or whatever You then trust that the detection logic (rules) is written correctly so that nobody mistyped “context.asset.vulnerability.severity” as “asset.context.vulnerability.severity” in a rule they wrote.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

LiveAuctioneers is one of the world’s largest art, antiques & collectibles online marketplace that was founded in 2002. ” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. million users.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts. Be aware of any changes in SMS-based connectivity.

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