Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, jyhxz.net 2013-07-02 — longmen[.]com com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, jyhxz.net 2013-07-02 — longmen[.]com com , buydudu[.]com

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. But now, at long last, we’re on the brink of eliminating passwords altogether, once and for all. Password tradeoffs Passwords have always been a big pain. Here are a few big takeaways.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

How Strong is Your Password? Millions of British people are using their pet's name as an online password, despite it being an easy target for hackers to work out, according to a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey. A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

It’s hard to tell a hacker from a legitimate user’s behavior using regular security procedures and technologies. Your IAM security strategy should consider current technologies and any IAM systems you want to adopt. SAML streamlines web-based SSO for compliance and security by using digital signatures rather than passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

The APT40 group has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be focused on supporting naval modernization efforts of the Government of Beijing. Threat actors target engineering, transportation, and defense sectors, experts observed a specific interest in maritime technologies. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

As I was looking at the security vendors and their technologies, I realized that security vendors that apparently peaked in relevance, say, in the mid-2000s had huge booths and did brisk business, selling whatever they sold before. RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence RSA 2006–2015 In Anton’s Blog Posts! RSA 2017: What’s The Theme?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2021

MITRE started in 2013 with Windows networks only, but it now contains information for various platforms , including mobile. Credential Access: Trying to steal account names and passwords. For example, Password Spraying is a sub-technique of the Brute Force technique and can be used to achieve credential access.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. A malicious DLL?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

As I was looking at the security vendors and their technologies, I realized that security vendors that apparently peaked in relevance, say, in the mid-2000s had huge booths and did brisk business, selling whatever they sold before. RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence. It was the past and the future. RSA 2017: What’s The Theme?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2021

Between 2013 and 2015, a UK company named CrowdSurge was successfully offering this service for some big name artists and Ticketmaster wanted to break into this line of business. If you or your kids have ever been in a performing artist's fan club, you may have gotten a shot at 'pre-sale' tickets. But it wasn't always this way. Now the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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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. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. invest in better endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology, apparently recommending Cylance or VMware Carbon Black. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. National Association ; Viacom International ; and Walgreens.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

The following credentials might be helpful: - Username : moodle - Password : moodle_123321 Tools The best tools for this lab are: Nmap Bash Shell Metasploit Framework Burp Suite What is Moodle? This is extremely similar to CVE-2013–3630, just using a different variable. Get a meterpreter shell on the target. Exploit the server.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

It had the username and password for the system printed on the machine. We’re grateful for the responsible disclosure and to the security research community for continuing to engage and share information with our teams to make our products and technologies ever more secure. “But nothing ever happened. and Marquette, Mich.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Using stolen passwords is an easy way to masquerade as a genuine user and access sensitive information or infiltrate deeper into your network. Remote Technology. IoT Devices.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The FBI estimates that from October 2013 to February 2016, whaling attacks were attributed to $2.3 In 2016, Tulane University confirmed that 10 employees were the target of a phishing attack that successfully tricked them into sharing their passwords to their payroll accounts. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. How then does one start securing it?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. How then does one start securing it?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

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. The technology is already widely adopted for business MFA and is simple to use. The whole reason 2FA is needed in the first place is that password credentials are incredibly prone to compromise.

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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. Once your micro-perimeters surround your most sensitive segments, there’s a need for ongoing monitoring and adaptive technology. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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SecureList

MARCH 28, 2023

Here is a report from CERT Polska that warned Polish users about such a threat targeting users of local banks in 2013. A password-protected RAR archive (random password). The SFX starts the original torbrowser.exe as a disguise, while also running the RAR extraction tool on the embedded password-protected RAR archive.

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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. I know that whenever I get a piece of new technology, I'm all excited. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. Actually, the real hero of this story wasn't within the FBI.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies. But happily, the proprietors of this enterprise were not so difficult to track down. The website Domainnetworks[.]com 68.35.149.206).

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

Now Kazuar is equipped with a keylogger and a password stealer which can fetch browser history data, cookies, proxy server credentials and, most importantly, passwords from Internet browsers, Filezilla, Outlook, Git and WinSCP. We initially reported MiniDuke , the earliest malware in this umbrella, in 2013.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

One particular target corresponds to an organization in control of several enterprises dealing with transport technology. In addition, we found several other victims of an undetermined nature with the same versions of ScrambleCross reaching out to the same command and control infrastructure. What were the attackers trying to achieve?

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

OWASP had this as a discrete item in their 2013 Top 10 and have now rolled it into "Broken Access Controls" This coding mistake meant that anyone could remotely access trip history and battery statuses of Nissan LEAFs plus control their heating and cooling systems. Oh - and it uses a password of 12345678. "god rights").

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

One technology that’s evolved to address mobile security, access management , and control is enterprise mobility management (EMM). VMware – now part of Dell – is well-known for its server virtualization technologies, but it is also a major player in the EMM space. VMware AirWatch. Citrix Endpoint Management.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In August 2013, Australian security firm, Gibson Security, contacted the Snapchat team to notify them of a vulnerability in their API that would allow hackers access to user data. Snapchat didn’t respond, and on December 31st 2013, Gibson Security released the source code for the API exploit publicly (a common Google practice).

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