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. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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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. Here’s how: Create long, strong, and unique passwords that are difficult to guess, or use a password manager to generate strong passwords for you.

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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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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. For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

But over the last few years, credible threats, exploits, and hacks of Apple products have become more persistent. Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018. In fact, news on Apple cyberthreats wasn’t just infrequent—it was inconsequential. There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This is where the "more than 23,000 hacked databases" headlines come from as this is how many files are in the archive. Here's what I found after checking over 74k addresses: Only 55% of the addresses in the sample set had been seen before (after loading the complete data set into HIBP, that number rose to 65%).

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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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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The data used in these attacks could be from different places. One six-month period last year resulted in 945 data breaches with a total of 4.5 The credentials used in stuffing exploits are acquired from a variety of sources, including black market repositories of data breach content. billion records compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. Street @jaysonstreet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The operator of the service shared the file with the popular expert Troy Hunt who operates the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service asking him to check the source of the huge trove of data. The data is not related to a data breach of kayo.moe, the platform was not impacted by any incident.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM. You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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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. It also includes advanced features such as SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) and the company's security architecture has never been hacked. Visit website.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2018

Back in August, I pushed out a service as part of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to help organisations block bad passwords from their online things. I called it "Pwned Passwords" and released 320M of them from real-world data breaches via both a downloadable file and an online service. 1Password. That's awesome.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

No really, I wrote about him last year and exposed his involvement in everything from state-sponsored Iranian hacking to typosquatting to him potentially being Ed Snowden. I mean we know he's a hacker because he has a hoodie and we know he's hacking because the text on the screen is green, but it doesn't totally add up. He's the guy!

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