SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

When either on-premise or cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers process Kerberos authentication requests, the leak causes the LSASS process to stop responding and the domain controller will unexpectedly restart. Oglio tracks vulnerability CVE-2023-48022 , rated CVSS 9.8 (out out of 10), and calls it Shadow Ray.

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Authentication Artificial Intelligence Software Cybersecurity 94

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Authentication Advertising Passwords Hacking 111

Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

Note that account credentials and banking details don’t appear to be part of the proof. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.” Start with security: Make sure you have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Note that NTLM was designed to perform authentication based on the challenge/response-based authentication system in which a client sends the plaintext username to the domain controller. The client uses password hash to encrypt the challenge and sends it back to the domain controller as a “response.”

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

A secondary mitigating factor is that many privileged accounts are members of the protected users security group, which has the benefit of disabling NTLM authentication for all member accounts. The ADManager Plus platform was found to be vulnerable to trivial remote command injection attacks, but only if you’re authenticated.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. Password manager apps can help.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

We had a model for managing secure access starting in 2012 but we had no way of verifying implementation. Tier 0 includes accounts, groups, and other assets that have direct or indirect administrative control of the Active Directory forest, domains, or domain controllers, and all the assets in it.”

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

This can be done using a low-privileged account on any Windows SCCM client. Client push installation accounts require local admin privileges to install software on systems in an SCCM site, so it is often possible to relay the credentials and execute actions in the context of a local admin on other SCCM clients in the site. Background.

Authentication 52

Authentication Accountability Penetration Testing Software 52

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 105

Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, and every member state of the European Union.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2022

As bots are buying all the Raspberry Pi systems available in the market, Adafruit, an online retailer of Raspberry Pi single-board computers, has implemented a 2-factor authentication for all the purchases made for the new hardware from this Monday. And if the users do not change such credentials, then they can be hacked at any moment.

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Authentication Retail Media Marketing 113

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Dashlane and LastPass are two of the biggest names in password management software. They both provide businesses secure vaults for sensitive information, including passwords, credit card details, and personal identification numbers. It has long been regarded as a top password manager for both personal and professional use.

Password Management 52

Password Management Passwords VPN Authentication 52

Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

TLS servers may be affected if they are using client authentication (which is a less common configuration) and a malicious client attempts to connect to it.” The last time we saw a bug of this scope was Heartbleed , the infamous attack on OpenSSL that lay undetected for two years (originating in 2012 and remaining unknown until 2014).

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Encryption Software Media Authentication 52

SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Government 117

eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

Password Management 97

Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 97

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 15.0.0.0/8, 8, 16.0.0.0/8,

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 107

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Government 98

Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Specifically, they wanted to be able to automatically “harvest” tokens on a host as people connected, keeping the tokens usable for operators even after the associated account logged off. Traditionally this has involved various methods to retrieve plaintext passwords, hashes, or Kerberos keys/tickets. Approaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords. The only way to view this data again is to be authenticated by the cloud encryption gateway.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

There was a time when stolen gaming accounts were almost treated as a fact of life. Gaming accounts had an essence of innate disposability to them, even if this wasn’t the case (how disposable is that gamertag used to access hundreds of dollars worth of gaming content)? Customer support: compromised accounts all the way down.

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Accountability Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 68

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. ru under the handle “ r-fac1.”

Cybercrime 225

Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 225

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. With the introduction of Apple's iOS 8, new system-level security abilities emerged, including the ability to use TouchID for several authentication scenarios. What is it about the job that you love? I love solving problems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

US DHS CISA agency warns of increased cyber-activity from Iran aimed at spreading data-wiping malware through password spraying , credential stuffing , and spear-phishing. industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The attacks are targeting U.S.

Backups 81

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This email contained a link leading to a password-protected archive hosted on Google Drive, which represented the first stage of the infection – a.NET binary that was obfuscated and trying to pass itself off as an OpenVPN binary, when in fact it was a malware loader.

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Government Malware VPN Manufacturing 101

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Features include automated discovery, port scans and patch status, password integrity , and protections for database-specific risks. Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft Azure. Database security features.

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Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 106

Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

Then there was CloudPets leaking kids voices because the "smart" teddy bears that recorded them (yep, that's right) then stored those recordings in a publicly facing database with no password. Certainly not the current gen XS, does that resolution put it back in about the iPhone 5 era from 2012? mSpy leaked data.

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Spyware Passwords Manufacturing Marketing 279

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.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel Investments. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners.

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