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. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police. From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb

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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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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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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 7, 2023

AES encryption can be commonly found in communication protocols, virtual private network (VPN) encryption, full-disk encryption, and Wi-Fi transmission protocols. The first is data encrypted throughout the lifecycle of use, which is currently more of a goal than a common practice.

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