Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014. . “The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Home Depot recently reached a multi-state agreement which settles an investigation into a 2014 data breach. In 2014, hackers accessed the company's network and installed malware to the self-checkout point-of-sale system. The data breach compromised payment card information of roughly 40 million customers. million to 46 U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

Experts suggest to monitor for sequential login attempts from the same IP against different accounts, use a password manager and set strong, unique passwords … and of course adopt multi-factor authentication. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2021

Hunt also offers this reminder: "In addition, all the old security best practices are obviously still important whether you find yourself in this incident or not: Use a password manager and create strong, unique passwords. Turn on 2-factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.".

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. The attacks aimed at government entities and managed service providers (MSPs) that were active in many industries, including aviation, healthcare, finance, insurance, energy, and gambling. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Immediately change your email password and consider using a password manager. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your email and other online accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

Back in 2014, “tens of millions” of Neopets accounts were said to have been traded on underground forums. Change your password , as Neopets suggests. This may be time to start looking at a password manager, for added safety. If this data is truly out there, phishers will almost certainly try their luck.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here’s how: Create long, strong, and unique passwords that are difficult to guess, or use a password manager to generate strong passwords for you. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you’re not familiar, the federal organization is the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM announced it was compromised in June of 2015, with the attackers possibly having access as early as March 2014. Next, use robust authentication practices. Also, turn on two-factor authentication wherever you can.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

Pick strong and complex passwords for all your accounts. Password manager apps can help. Consider enabling a security key or two-factor authentication to protect your Facebook account using codes from a third party authentication app. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 26, 2021

This strain of malware dates back as far as 2014 and it became a gateway into infected machines for other strains of malware ranging from banking trojans to credential stealers to ransomware. Turn on 2 factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb For instance, the company had not previously secured all of its domains with a “ domain lock ,” a service that requires a registrar to take additional authentication steps before making any modifications to a domain’s records. The first domain was “ ns0.idm.net.lb

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests. Federal Trade Commission was already investigating a 2014 breach at Uber, another security breach affected 57 million Uber account holders and drivers.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Cast your mind back to 2014. These changes apply to the use of cloud services, as well as home working, multi-factor authentication, password management and security updates — all of which are becoming of increasing concern in today’s new hybrid world. What we need is a fresh approach, befitting BYOD 2.0,

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

. “Common password advice is to use a long and unique password for each website you have an account with. It’s challenging to remember a strong and unique password for each website without either using a password manager or using a trivially discovered theme. ” reads the advisory published by GitHub.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

Storing anything on a publicly accessible server without any kind of authentication process in place is dangerous, which is a lesson many organizations still tend to learn the hard way. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Don’t reuse passwords! Always use a two-factor authentication mechanism when implemented by the service we access to, and use strong password that can be generated by password manager applications. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2019

As a result of our investigation, we have strong evidence that the compromised accounts have account passwords being stored in plaintext on a deployment of a related repository. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If your computer has malware on it, it doesn’t matter how secure your website is, because criminals can just steal your password or login in to your website from your computer, pretending to be you. Set strong passwords. You can get to grips with most of these bad habits by adding two-factor authentication (2FA) to your site.

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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! But getting onto the title of this section, the page in question is the E-Aadhaar authentication page (also geo-blocked).

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