Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2015

All the news are full of caution not to be hacked, not to put easy passwords, and so on. For 2014, the number of daily cyber attacks dropped to 3,043, nearly one-third less than the 4,200 attacks during the same timeframe in 2013, while the number of breaches dropped more than 50 percent for Black Friday and Cyber Monday year-over-year.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Ransomware Types.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The attackers were then able to move to other servers, due in large part because they were able to find usernames and passwords stored in a plain text file that then allowed them access. Data was pulled out of the network over a long period of time so that no large data movements could be detected. In February 2020, the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. implement offline storage and tape-based backup. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. All very sound advice.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules? Overview of the Ways to Back up Outlook Account Settings The legend has it that early versions of Outlook contained special functionality that enabled you to backup your account settings. Neither do we.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. Constella finds the same password tied to webmaster@stairwell.ru (225948) was used by the email address 3k@xakep.ru , which Intel 471 says was registered to more than a dozen NeroWolfe accounts across just as many Russian cybercrime forums between 2011 and 2015. . and admin@stairwell.ru “P.S.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The attackers use the reverse shell to deploy a Bash stealer that collects data such as system information, browsing history, saved passwords, cryptocurrency wallet files and credentials for cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure). Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

They’re easier to use – a simple finger press – but they cost around $30 each, still need to be enrolled, and let’s not forget that you need a second one as a backup in case you lose the other one. Most big web platforms turned 2FA on around 2013 and the only people using it a decade later seem to be corporates and expert users.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Absence of a Password Policy for Employees – About 81% of company data breaches happened due to poor passwords One of the main O365 security concerns is password carelessness. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, more than 70% of workers reuse passwords. How to make passwords secure: 1.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Partnering with SentinelOne , N-able launched its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and password management solutions in 2019.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Pretty much the entire population of South Africa had their data exposed when someone published a database backup to a publicly facing web server (it was accessible by anyone for up to 2 and a half years). Oh - and it uses a password of 12345678. Every single one of these incidents was an access control mistake. "god rights").

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

This type of ransomware reached its peak popularity in the years 2013-2018. Some of them don’t have a backup at all; others can back up data infrequently, like once a month or even less often. In fact, only 25% of home users have automatic weekly backups. Don’t provide your passwords to unreliable sites.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yesterday, Yahoo disclosed that attackers broke into Yahoo in 2013 and stole details on a billion accounts. Yahoo says users should change their passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which they used the same or similar information used for their Yahoo account. I use 1Password , and recommend it.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Gozi ISFB started targeting financial institutions around 2013-2015 and hasn’t stopped since then. Backup controllers. It is one of the few – perhaps the only – main active branches of the notorious 15 year old Gozi / CRM. Process execution. CRC Command Description 0x73d425ff NEWPROCESS Initialising RM3 routine.

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