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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2022

Microsoft has a technology called Active Directory that allows workstations to authenticate with a “domain controller.” Patches that can cause problems include the following: KB5009624 for Server 2012 R2 KB5009595 for Server 2012 R2 KB5009546 for Server 2016 KB5009557 for Server 2019. You can use any email and password here.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 13, 2014

One such recent addition is the version of FreeRDP, which allows a penetration tester to use a password hash instead of a plain text password for authentication to the remote desktop service in Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. RDP sessions using harvested password hashes. What’s the big deal, you say?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Spokespersons for MyHeritage and 500px confirmed the authenticity of the data. Most of the data included in the dump consist of account holder names, email addresses, and hashed passwords (in some cases password are hashed with the MD5 algorithm that makes it easy for hackers to decrypt). “I need the money.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And virtually all IRRs have disallowed its use since at least 2012, said Adam Korab , a network engineer and security researcher based in Houston. “LEVEL 3 is the last IRR operator which allows the use of this method, although they have discouraged its use since at least 2012,” Korab told KrebsOnSecurity.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

Start with security: Make sure you have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. You may also want to check whether your email address or phone numbers are on HaveIBeenPwned (LinkedIn suffered a genuine breach in 2012, and over 100 million passwords were stolen). Don’t know what HaveIBeenPwned is?

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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 Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

I reviewed the techniques that Matt Nelson mentioned could be used to coerce authentication from the client push installation account and found that when the “Clear Install Flag” site maintenance task is enabled, SCCM will eventually initiate client push installation if you simply remove the client software from a system. Background.

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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. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

We had a model for managing secure access starting in 2012 but we had no way of verifying implementation. In that case, the host is in control of the user because the host is in possession of the user’s Kerberos tickets, NT hash, and maybe even cleartext password in some cases. A more straightforward example is hardware.

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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.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2018

Then it emerged that Securus had been hacked, its database of hundreds of law enforcement officer usernames and passwords plundered. AT&T noted that it began its relationship with LocationSmart in October 2012 (back when it was known by another name, “Locaid”). mobile networks. By that time, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In particular, the system.img file serves as the authentic payload archive used for initial Windows system infections. This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. This may be a bug; the authors probably meant 169.254.0.0/16

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. What was compromised: names, email addresses, and passwords. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Who attacked: no attacker. and Vietnam.

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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.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Meaning, authentication bypasses weren’t enough. After decoding the files , most of the API endpoints and the web interface were not accessible without authentication. The daemon takes XML data, parses the request and carries out the action without any authentication, except making sure the request came from 127.0.0.1.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. What was compromised: names, email addresses, and passwords. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

I knew very little about Windows authentication at the time, so when the other red teamer investigated the idea and told us it wasn’t possible, I left it at that. Traditionally this has involved various methods to retrieve plaintext passwords, hashes, or Kerberos keys/tickets. Before September 2016 they were (probably? Approaches.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 4, 2012. If it had a padlock, you could trust it and there's weren't a lot of exceptions to that. But the presence of HTTPS is in no way a judgement call on the trustworthiness of the site: HTTPS & SSL doesn't mean "trust this." " It means "this is private."

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

The gradual roll-out of Two-factor Authentication (2FA) across both gaming platforms and titles themselves is a wonderful thing, but one worries about buy-in. Forgotten passwords will tie up support’s time, for sure. World of Warcraft developers Blizzard released their first authenticator way back in 2009.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. The Zerologon vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1472 , is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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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.

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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. As a Unitarian Universalist or U.U.,

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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. Want to know more about password spraying and how to stop it? The attacks are targeting U.S. link] [link] — Chris Krebs (@CISAKrebs) June 22, 2019. .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII. No, this would be almost the perfect crime and done with a very simply yet subtle zero day.

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