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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket is the root cause of a data leak that impacted 2.4 Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. Abine discoverd the data leak on December 13. million users were impacted by the data leak.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing attack. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 6, 2018.

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

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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

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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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!

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018. In the 2020 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes researchers found that Mac malware—primarily backdoors, data stealers, and cryptominers—had risen by 61 percent over the previous year. There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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%). Passwords like "Ashtro1969", "Odette1978" and, perhaps unsurprisingly given the file I was looking at, "ilovechordie".

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

The dump, labeled “ Collection #1 ” and approximately 87GB in size, was first detailed earlier today by Troy Hunt , who operates the HaveIBeenPwned breach notification service. Hunt said the data cache was likely “made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.”

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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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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Frequently, it's some long-forgotten site they haven't even thought about in years and also frequently, the first people know of these incidents is via HIBP: large @ticketfly data breach.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to “teach companies a lesson about cybersecurity.” Do they even know they have been breached?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption can also be found incorporated into a variety of network security and cloud security solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), password managers , virtual private networks (VPN), and web application firewalls (WAF).

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Its findings included data from Irish businesses, which ranked cyber attacks and data breaches as their top risk they face. 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. It’s downloadable here.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, Ponemon Institute reported that 73% of small businesses that suffered a ransomware attack in 2018 did not pay the ransom because. An automated backup solution can ensure that all the data from your devices and server is backed up regularly. According to Ponemon, 60% of data breaches can be linked to negligence.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach On Thursday 17 Jan, I loaded 773M records into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which I titled "Collection #1". The exposed data included email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data included email addresses, private messages and phpBB salted hashes.

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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. He loves password managers. I use a password manager.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

I kept collecting plain text passwords as I processed data breaches with the thinking that I'd have a good sense of when the scale was sufficient to publish a V3. It's not a trivial task - crunching the data, updating the counts, dumping it into different formats, uploading tens of GBs (over Aussie internet.),

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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. Cisco’s acquisition of Duo Security in 2018 gave the networking giant a strong presence in both IAM and zero trust. Learn more about Twingate.

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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

Getting to the point of all this, the other day I shared a couple of tweets: Tempted to write a smack down on the use of this term versus the reality of where these breaches are sourced from, what do you think? — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 1, 2018. Or take the CloudPets situation - exposed Mongo DB with no credentials on it.

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