Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Fake Amazon login The phishing site asks for an email or phone number tied to an Amazon account. Next, the site directs you to a tailored password page, using the information you just entered. Take action.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. banks are stiffing account takeover victims.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you have a bunch of passwords and manually checking them all would be painful, give this a go: If you use 1Password account you now have a brand new Watchtower integrated with @haveibeenpwned API. Also, looks like I have to update some passwords ?? — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. 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.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

So even passwords that are created by humans that are slightly different, still tend to be pretty easy to crack. Passwordless is this next paradigm in authentication where we don’t have to rely on human-created passwords and credentials. And start going through different websites, trying to crack those accounts as well.

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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. 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible. The first IoT casualties?

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2020

The larger schemes tend to include nation-state involvement: "The most high profile attacks were conducted by Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) against the World Anti-Doping Agency, in August 2016. Make basic attacks more difficult: Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for important services such as email accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. Macs running the M1 chip now support the same degree of robust security Apple consumers expect from their iOS devices, which means features like Kernel Integrity Protection, Fast Permission Restrictions (which help mitigate web-based or runtime attacks), and Pointer Authentication Codes.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. 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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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

In February, only the day after I launched Pwned Passwords V2 , 1Password turned around and built it into their product so that users of the password manager could see if their password had been previously exposed in a breach. I expect we'll see the existing functionality enhanced in the not too distant future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I did attend a SANS Course as a volunteer facilitator for MGT414: “SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification” at the Rocky Mountain SANS 2016 cybersecurity conference. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books.

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