Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 24, 2018

Casey is the founder of Bugcrowd and they help companies ranging from MasterCard to NETGEAR to Western Union run managed bug bounty programs. Casey and I have been mates for about 5 years now, in fact I went back and checked my email and it was Jan 2013 when we first caught up over beers in Sydney and he shared his vision for Bugcrowd.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence RSA 2006–2015 In Anton’s Blog Posts!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Example of leaked email addresses: Besides the CSV files, the bucket also contained voice recordings of several sales pitches to digital marketers about RepWatch, which appears to be a long-defunct domain reputation management tool and may or – considering when the files were uploaded – may not be related to the CSV files stored in the bucket.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence. Related posts: RSA 2020 Reflection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 Use strong, non-dictionary passwords for sites and services, use a password manager to store them, and never reuse passwords across sites. million student records from the local community college system I attend.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. ”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Two meaningful steps every person can take, right now, is to begin routinely using a password manager and encrypted browsers. And yet, it remains true today that most folks do not take that responsibility seriously enough. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Since we are left only a month and a half till the Valentine’s Day it’s rather obvious to claim that password “iloveyou” is one of the nine passwords from 2013-2014. According to the recent reports, the passwords evaluated for the 2014 list were mostly held by users of North America and Western Europe.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The major Web browsers will now auto-suggest long, complex and unique passwords when users go to set up a new account somewhere online, and this is obviously the simplest way to achieve that goal.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. While big tech phases in new authentication solutions, Dashlane — a password manager used by more than 20,000 companies and more than 15 million users — made a full switch. The Natural Log-in Evolution.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 9, 2018

One of the most alarming trends I've seen in the world of data breaches since starting Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) back in 2013 is the rapid rise of credential stuffing attacks. Go and get a password manager (I use 1Password ), generate random strings for passwords, job done. (Of

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

There were 2 very simple reasons I built that and I've given this same answer in probably a hundred interviews since 2013: I wanted to build something on Azure in anger. I was trying to drive Pfizer (where I worked at the time) down the cloud path and in particular, towards PaaS. What about Why No HTTPS ? Or HTTPS is Easy ?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to “teach companies a lesson about cybersecurity.” The US Department of Energy (DoE). The New York Times.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The motion picture acquisition agreements, tax ID requests, and contract addendum scans all date between 2013 and 2016. The vast majority of the files stored in the unsecured bucket are film thumbnail pictures and various promotional materials. What to do if you’ve been affected?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Vamosi: One sunny morning in 2013. In 2013, we only knew that someone calling themselves Dread Pirate Roberts was running the site. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. If you want nothing to connect back to you choose an entirely new set of passwords. Actually, the real hero of this story wasn't within the FBI.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Tabriz has led Google Chrome’s security since 2013, which extends to managing Product, Engineering, and UX today. Behold the tale of kid who reuses their passwords & ends up pwn'd, then learns how to stay safe. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

N-able – formerly SolarWinds MSP between 2013 and 2021 – has over two decades of experience in integrated monitoring and management tools for enterprise organizations. Partnering with SentinelOne , N-able launched its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and password management solutions in 2019.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

I ended up moving this section after the miscellaneous one simply because of this: We've seen a 2016 copyright, a 2010 copyright and now a 2013 copyright published on a 2014 page! This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Blocking Paste.

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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. The first mistake is to not recommend a password manager. Using a password manager is essential to using a different password on each website. So: use a password manager. You move on.

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