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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. It's alive! "Have

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Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0 malware to control Microsoft SQL Servers

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The skip-2.0

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What Can Happen When You Fail to Secure a Continuous Integration (CI) API

Security Boulevard

Now that we understand the architecture and the value it holds to developers, let’s examine the findings of this most recent CI API exposure. Researchers uncovered: 770 million exposed logs between 2013 and 2022. Passwords and tokens saved in cleartext. Docker Hub passwords. Secrets exposed from DockerHub, GitHub and AWS.

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Kali Linux 2023.4 Release (Cloud ARM64, Vagrant Hyper-V & Raspberry Pi 5)

Kali Linux

For the time being, the image is for ARM64 architecture, hopefully additional flavors will come later. kali3-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. You can keep an eye on progress by checking our documentation about it. " VERSION_ID="2023.4"

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Winnti uses a new PipeMon backdoor in attacks aimed at the gaming industry

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The first stage of the PipeMon backdoor consists of a password-protected RARSFX executable embedded in the.rsrc section of its launcher. A malicious DLL?

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I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base

Troy Hunt

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. For free, because he's a good bloke and Cloudflare supported him.

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