Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

Back in 2014, “tens of millions” of Neopets accounts were said to have been traded on underground forums. We strongly recommend that you change your Neopets password. If you use the same password on other websites, we recommend that you also change those passwords. (2/3) What does this mean in practice?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2021

Change your email account password. Also change passwords and security questions for any accounts you may have stored in either your inbox or browser, especially those of higher value such as banking.". Turn on 2-factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.". What was Emotet?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Require strong administrative passwords(use a password manager for best results) and enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fortunately, the files stored in the exposed Snewpit bucket don’t contain any deeply sensitive information like personal document scans, passwords, or social security numbers. Immediately change your email password and consider using a password manager. What’s the impact of the leak? Original post at [link].

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. Password manager apps can help.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. The first domain was “ ns0.idm.net.lb

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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. Change your email account password. Turn on 2 factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. ” SEPTEMBER. A report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reveals that most big U.S.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cybercriminals don’t break into websites one by one, using their best guess to figure out your password like they do in the movies. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. “Common password advice is to use a long and unique password for each website you have an account with. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. Don’t reuse passwords!

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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

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 -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – ransomware, Git repositories).

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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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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). Let them paste passwords!

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