Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

.” Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks exposed databases, finds that 774748@gmail.com was used in connection with just a handful of passwords, but most frequently the password “ featar24 “ Pivoting off of that password reveals a handful of email addresses, including akafitis@gmail.com. ru in 2008.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

.” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . ” reported ZDNet. Famous nostalgic game, Webkinz, got hacked and database leaked.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Elite sign-ups for the period 1999–2005 were accessed, including name, address, email address, phone number, and the password associated with Zacks.com.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2024

is an open-source CMS that’s been around since 2005, and has been one of the most popular CMS platforms by market share for much of that time. Super User’s password. Many companies, from small outfits to large enterprises, use a CMS in some form to manage their websites. versions 4.0.0-4.2.7. or later.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2021

A survey conducted by Gartner in 2019 said that 88% of companies operating worldwide were hit by a cyber attack and out of those, 51% of them experienced the incident for password steal. Only 5 percent of the total data and virtual files stored across the world are secure and so the Cybersecurity business is said to reach a valuation of $170.3

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, PAM technology came on the scene around 2005, as a subset of identity access and management (IAM) systems. At a very basic level PAM does this by implementing multi-factor authentication and proactively managing passwords for privileged users and for the users of shared privileged accounts. Password concierge.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Password (Object Lessons series) , Martin Eve. A short book reflecting on the history of thinking about passwords, treating the secret knowledge of how to solve the labyrinth as password adjacent. His (2005) argument that the computer doesnt matter is looking somewhat, but not exceptionally, dated. Lovely and fun.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The phpBB forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

According to HIBP, the records in the database contain names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. ” reported HIBP.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. form [sic] hackers on public networks.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. Exposed customers’ data may include name, address, phone number, email address, and password used for Zacks.com. ” concludes the notice.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2022

In 2005, the open standard consortium OASIS released SAML 2.0 These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). In 2005, OASIS released 2.0, to broad appeal. A year later, SAML 1.0

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

These records contained logs of conversations between Microsoft support and customers going back to 2005. The data was available to anyone on the web, unsecured with passwords or any other authentication requirements. The customer data included emails, birth dates, passwords, physical addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Similarly, the states Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005) was one of the earliest breach notification laws in the U.S., The SHIELD Act: Strengthening New Yorks Data Security The SHIELD Act , passed in 2019, builds on New Yorks earlier Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. .

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When this trend started back in 2005, people preferred to shop while they were at the office, using fast computers and high-speed connections. Even amateur hackers can snoop on public Wi-Fi and pick up your email and other account login IDs and passwords. Change all of your passwords. But why Cyber Monday and not Saturday?

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. Despite this, he was active in extracurricular activities. In high school, he participated in a computer club.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords.” .” The company announced that it will reimburse those customers who choose to replace their stolen ID documents. The statement also reported that approximately 6.1

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a fixture of the calendar now, as are Data Privacy Day, World Password Day, and a host of other well-intentioned privacy and security themed events. I’ve been involved with events like this since 2005, and one time at a panel with reps from the FTC and the NYAG…. The questions is, is anybody listening?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). The post Attacks against game companies are up.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. How do databases get compromised?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 21, 2021

Furthermore, the number of regular telecommuting employees has grown by 173% since 2005. Hence apart from just using simple passwords, users are prompted to present additional information such as biometric readings or another connected device verification to in order to be granted access.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include Forescout, Imperva, Webroot, Tenable, and Crowdstrike; and Accel’s other successful investments include Atlassian, Cloudera, Etsy, and Meta. Accel Investments. Paladin Capital Group. Ten Eleven Ventures.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. We suggest to harden and update your SSH server configuring authentication with authorized keys and disabling passwords. This means that, most probably, the gang will deploy a new IRC server leaving the rest of the infrastructure untouched.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. in 2005 and TOTP in. Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. HOTP was standardized in the.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . Estimated to have been around since 2005, Kaspersky Lab discovered Stuxnet in 2010. Now decades later, these complex systems are running on legacy software and operating systems.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2024

The authorization can be associated with specific hardware, shared encryption keys, passwords, and more. Claims Ownership of Content Applying DRM to content stakes an ownership claim as unobtrusive as a watermark for photos or marketing material or as complete as password-protected content with highly restrictive use restrictions.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org. Corpse/Revive also long operated an extremely popular service called check2ip[.]com

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Once a penetration tester, Paul Asadoorian has been the founder and CEO of Security Weekly and host of a weekly show since 2005. Enable 2FA and get a password manager. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2005, Sony BMG delivered millions of CDs with a rootkit that monitored listening habits and unintentionally left a backdoor to the device for cybercriminals. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Good password hygiene is one of the best ways to prevent access to keyloggers.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. Constella reports that for roughly a year between 2021 and 2022, a Microsoft Windows device regularly used by Mr. Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022.

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