Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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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. The spear-phishing messages attempt to trick the victims into installing malware on their computer that allows attacker to steal or obtain access to a password manager account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

A massive cyber espionage campaign targeting a slew of domains for government agencies across the Middle East region between 2018 and 2019 was preceded by a series of targeted attacks on domain registrars and Internet infrastructure firms that served those countries. Nation-state level attackers also are taking a similar approach.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. Discord offers some tips on how to keep your account safe : Use a strong password, and one that is unique to your Discord account. You’ll also frequently see bots pushing offers for things which simply don’t exist anymore.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems.

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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. Additionally, lock down all email addresses with multifactor authentication (MFA). Consider using a password manager for organization-specific passwords.

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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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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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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. . But on Nov.

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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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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. It's a subset of MFA.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 13, 2019

» Related Stories Podcast Episode 129: Repair Eye on the CES Guy and Sensor Insecurity EU calls for End to Default Passwords on Internet of Things Podcast Episode 134: The Deep Fake Threat to Authentication and analyzing the PEAR Compromise. Read the whole entry. » CTIAs new certification is the toothiest standard going.

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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. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT. “We were doing the right things, just not fast enough.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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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. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018. FergusInLondon) January 10, 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. Encryption protocols can also verify the authenticity of sources and prevent a sender from denying they were the origin of a transmission.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

According to Dailymotion, the attack took the form of a guessing game of sorts, the passwords of some Dailymotion accounts being drawn from a huge number of known login/password combinations, or by using passwords stolen from websites unrelated to Dailymotion. This strategy is made easier with a password manager.

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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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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

MAY 19, 2021

” The majority of the data breached are credential information, such as usernames and passwords, with the former usually being an email address. For starters, change your password. You can formulate your own long password, or you can enlist the help of a password manager. Make it longer.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

thanks @troyhunt for the excellent @haveibeenpwned service that notifies users of #privacy disasters like this :) [link] pic.twitter.com/jlqnKXteDG — Yale Privacy Lab (@YalePrivacyLab) June 4, 2018. I at least know about it, thx to @haveibeenpwned — Tim Plas (@TJPlas) June 3, 2018. ticketfly a heads up would have been nice.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Passwords: can’t live with ’em, can’t access vital online services without ’em Passwords were in the news again lately, for all the wrong reasons. LastPass, the password management service, is enforcing a 12-character minimum for master passwords to access its service. million users.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

rows of email addresses and passwords in total, but only 1.6B They learned about the phenomenon that is data breaches and credential stuffing lists, they read about password managers and 2FA and inevitably, many of them subsequently made behavioural changes to their security practices. There were 2.7B

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2020

These include phishing, password spraying and credential stuffing.". The GRU stole confidential medical files from WADA's Anti-Doping Administration and Management System, then leaked sensitive information onto the internet. Reduce the password burden: Review how your organization uses passwords.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place. A static single sign-on (SSO) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) product isn’t going to cut it at the enterprise level, where the cost of a breach is high.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

It was founded in 2018 as a result of my PhD dissertation research, which looked at the cybersecurity preparedness of domestic violence and human trafficking organizations. For example, there was a nonprofit IT director we were working with who could not get anyone in his organization to use multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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