eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Katie Moussouris | @k8em0.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. The problems with passwords Chrysta: Why was passwordless needed in the first place?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

References Free speech is not absolute - anywhere - and in the US there are numerous exceptions where free speech is not protected (and nor should it be) The more mainstream tech platforms have a history of banning all sorts of accounts for violating their terms of service, for example Twitter deleted hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts in 2015/2016 (..)

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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. Not good at all.

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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. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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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. Learn about Password Optimization. Think again.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember. There's also a bunch of other ways 1Password can use the data to streamline how users protect their accounts and that's something we're actively discussing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers.”

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2020

These include phishing, password spraying and credential stuffing.". 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. MFA buys a lot of additional security for relatively little effort.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). Once again thank you!

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

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. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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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. While IndieFlix believes that the bucket has been publicly accessible since May 2015, the company has not found any suspicious activity or unauthorized access attempts to any of its accounts during the period.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017.

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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. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Blocking Paste.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. From an optional password manager feature in Safari that looks out for saved passwords involved in data breaches to new digital security for car keys on Apple Watches and the iPhone, the security sweep appears to be comprehensive. Adware accounted for another 22 percent.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

KABA1 was an implant used against targets throughout the South China Sea that we attributed to the Naikon APT back in 2016. That said, none of the public accounts described sightings of the full infection chain and later stages of malware deployed as part of this group’s operation.

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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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