eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was founded in 2008 and has since seen Azure surpass their market position. Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. This may be a bug; the authors probably meant 169.254.0.0/16 8, 15.0.0.0/8, 8, 16.0.0.0/8, 8, 56.0.0.0/8

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NopSec

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We also analyze a Windows Kerberos vulnerability introduced by the use of legacy RC4-MD4 encryption. Kerberos RC4 CVE-2022-33647 This related set of vulnerabilities is present due to the implementation of legacy encryption algorithms used within the Kerberos protocol, specifically RC4. Severity: High Complexity: High CVSS Score: 8.1

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

.” It is not known who is behind the Baltimore ransomware attack, but Armor said it was confident that the bad actor(s) in this case were the same individual(s) using the now-suspended twitter account @Robihkjn (Robbinhood). The account also began tagging dozens of reporters and news organizations on Twitter. Image: Armor.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2021

In the SingHealth breach, “bad system management” was responsible for the event, resulting in access to an unsecured administrator account. However, with the emergence of new strains of ransomware that exfiltrate data prior to encrypting it, access control for accounts becomes increasingly important.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2021

Tor uses layers of encryption to keep your traffic secure. (It’s Each node peels back one layer of encryption. The encryption ensures that each node is only aware of the node that came before it and the node that comes after it. Because Tor uses more nodes and more encryption than a VPN it is normally slower.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Facebook, and Oracle. EnterpriseDB.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity first encountered Aqua’s work in 2008 as a reporter for The Washington Post. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into. tank: He is the account from which we cashed. HITCHED TO A MULE.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2021

In addition to the usual password storage and sharing capabilities, Teams edition customers can enjoy 1GB of document storage for each user, 5 guest accounts, standard 2FA, and Duo integration for MFA. One of the best bonus features 1Password offers with its Business plan is a free family account for all users.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Vamosi: I mentioned that Guido started fuzzing cryptography, which is the art of encryption, and it is a well established science. That’s also why you occasionally hear about depricated encryption schemes.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2021

Since the company’s launch in 2008, LastPass has reported numerous security breaches that range in severity from vulnerabilities in browser extensions to full-blown breaches. Both tools use local AES-256 encryption , which is the industry standard for preventing attackers from accessing stored passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. For malicious keyloggers outside your organization, initial access to a device or user’s account would be necessary.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Example Mystic Stealer constant obfuscation technique Encrypted binary custom protocol.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The account recovery element of passkey is another double-edged sword. While a consumer application will almost certainly be pleased to outsource account recovery to Apple, Google, or Microsoft, many administrators may not be. They convert the data into templates that, even if leaked or breached, cannot be used to hack an account.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Since 2008, LastPass has given users a platform that’s supremely easy to use across multiple devices. Additionally, both vendors have easy-to-use mobile applications that make it a breeze to access accounts securely while traveling. They each employ a 256-bit AES encryption that can only be decrypted at the device level.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Catchpoint launched in 2008 as a dedicated monitoring tools provider right as organizations started to dabble with cloud services. Administrators can use network monitoring tools to enhance visibility and deepen performance control, fault tolerance, and system or account activity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. The encryption is performed by a simple xor having as key the single byte 0 while the encoding procedure is a multi conversion routine which could be summarized as follows: chr(asc(chr(“&h”&mid(x,y,2)))).

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Cytelligence

JULY 30, 2020

Introduced in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server, RDG addresses some of these concerns by enabling organizations to keep their RDP endpoint servers behind a firewall by exposing just the RDG server to the internet in order to forward the RDP connections. Implement account lock-out capabilities ; and .

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Activation: The ransomware begins encrypting sensitive files or locking down the system. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 Ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It also created a forced savings plan for us; money in real estate is not "liquid" so you can't readily draw it out of a savings account on a whim and loans need to be paid on time each month or banks start getting cranky. Like most couples, there comes a time where that's on the cards and for us we started talking seriously about it in 2008.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. He also shares passwords with his friends, leading to the first computer “troll.” million credit cards.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. • C yber a ttack s on Georgia (2008 , 2019 ) Georgian government websites get defaced; thousands of government and private websites get blocked, including two major TV stations. Ukrainian p ower g rid take downs (2015 , 2016) The capitol city of Kyiv suffers widespread, extended outages. •

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Born from two board members of AVG Technologies, Evolution Equity Partners started in 2008 to help US and European-based entrepreneurs in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and consumer-enterprise crossover segments. In 2008, the Washington, DC-based firm made a prudent decision by shifting its focus to cybersecurity. NightDragon.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” DirectConnection, circa 2011.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

So, the ATT&CK framework Ed's itself, the enterprise ATT&CK had this portion that was all the things before you get on the network that adversaries do, let's bring that over impact was a extension last year which focuses on the other side of thing, what do they do, as, as kind of that end goal, do they wipe systems, do they encrypt it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

So, the ATT&CK framework Ed's itself, the enterprise ATT&CK had this portion that was all the things before you get on the network that adversaries do, let's bring that over impact was a extension last year which focuses on the other side of thing, what do they do, as, as kind of that end goal, do they wipe systems, do they encrypt it.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Up until recently, central banks have acted as the metaphorical custodian of trust, employing complex processes that force populations to participate in bank accounts and credit cards to earn trust benefits, like credit scores. Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Famously attributed to the SolarWinds and StellarParticle attack campaigns, this group has been operating since about 2008 and has targets ranging across most of the planet, including both the Democratic and Republican National Committees in the US. APT29 AKA CozyBear : This APT is associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.

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