Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 18, 2018. AjaxStudy) April 18, 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Use a password manager. It’s clear that we will continue to be reliant on usernames and passwords to access online services for some time to come. Everyone should be using one.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. “This guy had access to the notes, and knew the number to call,” to make changes to the account, Barrie said.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. Pick a Strong Password Manager. Employees inevitably rely on a few identical or similar passwords for multiple accounts. Make Use of Multifactor Authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

billion stolen usernames, passwords and other personal data. Related: Massive Marriott breach closes out 2018. The clear and present risk to the average consumer or small business owner is that his or here stolen account credentials will surface in one or more credential stuffing campaigns. ” Third-party risks. “We

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. They could stand to lose their gaming accounts, their logins for other services, some money, or perhaps a combination of all 3. All from friend accounts, all the same stupid language none of them use, all the same fake scam links. Gonna dk something about this?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. As we can see above, Collection #1 offered by this seller is indeed 87GB in size.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. Leaked data included email addresses, password hashes ( bcrypt hashes with a unique salt for each user), IP addresses and, in some cases, first and last names and password hints.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2018 I decided to give my kids an old Apple laptop to share, and I documented the steps I took to secure it. Install a password manager. A password manager is software for creating and remember strong passwords. Good ones also provide a safe way for users to share passwords with other people.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success. While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. Embrace Learning Management Systems That Enable Microlearning and Self-Service. About Amanda Fennell.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Devolutions is a Montreal, Canada-based company that provides remote connection in addition to password and privileged access management (PAM) solutions to SMBs. million — damages that would crush most SMBs.

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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

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. Account takeovers can be used to steal money at its very root; and fraudsters can also use this to access loyalty accounts for airlines, hotels, etc., Baber Amin , COO, Veridium : Amin.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2022

Evilnum, on the APT scene since 2018 at the earliest and perhaps most well known for targeting the financial sector , appears to have switched gears. The same goes for backup/recovery emails tied to the main account(s). Consider using a password manager for organization-specific passwords. In times of conflict.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. Billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June, an overall number of 30 billion malicious logins were observed between November 2017 and June 2018, an average of 3.75 The experts detected 8.3

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Researchers and security firms have linked REvil as a strain of GandCrab, another RaaS group that was wildly popular in 2018. Use unique passwords to protect each of your sensitive data and accounts, while also enabling two-factor authorization. Use a password manager to generate and track your passwords.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I'm going to highlight one particular row that used a Mailinator address simply because Mailinator accounts are public email addresses where there is no expectation whatsoever of privacy. txt" had a small number of email address and password hex pairs. The "Rejected.txt" file contained malformed email addresses and "Result(HEX).txt"

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

It amends the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) introduced in response to rising consumer data privacy concerns. The CPRA builds on the six original consumer rights introduced by the CCPA in 2018. Ensure employees use modern tools such as password managers to protect their online accounts.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet and then secondly, about how we all bear some responsibility for making good password choices. This week, I wanted to focus on going beyond passwords and talk about 2FA.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. VCPI manages the IT systems for some 110 clients that serve approximately 2,400 nursing homes in 45 U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Rules with teeth This fast-tracking of Middle East cybersecurity regulations unfolded as the European Union was putting the finishing touches on its tough new data privacy and data handling rules, with enforcement teeth , set forth in GDPR, which took effect in May 2018. That basic advice continues to hold very true today, even more so.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to Purplesec, ransomware attacks have increased by 350% since 2018, zero-day attacks were up by 55% in 2021, and out of the 30 million SMBs in the USA, over 66% have had at least 1 cyber incident between 2018-2020. Vulnerability management is a critical element of information security.

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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. A video of Kanye West from 2018 purportedly revealed that the rapper and producer’s iPhone passcode was 000000.

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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. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

House Oversight and Homeland Security committees last week, SolarWinds’s former and current CEOs blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub – an act which may or may not have contributed to a supply chain hack that impacted users of the tech firm’s Orion IT performance monitoring platform.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

» Related Stories Voting Machine Maker Defends Refusal of White-Hat Hacker Testing at DEF-CON Kaspersky: Attacks on Smart Devices Rise Threefold in 2018 Podcast Episode 112: what it takes to be a top bug hunter. For consumers, that means boning up on account security – maybe getting a password manager.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! Everywhere.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft for the past few years has been among the loudest vendors calling for a security future that doesn’t include passwords. In 2018, the software giant took the step of doing away with passwords for people signing into its Edge web browser, saying instead they could use a number of alternatives. Passwords are Unpopular.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018. 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.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Over recent weeks, I've begun planning the release of the 3rd version of Pwned Passwords. If you cast your mind back, version 1 came along in August last year and contained 320M passwords. We'll start with the raw numbers: in total, there are 517,238,891 passwords which is 15.6M more than in V2.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? travelling).

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