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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The vulnerabilities were found by the security researcher Wladimir Palant that reported them to Kaspersky in December 2018. “In December 2018 I could prove that websites can hijack the communication between Kaspersky browser scripts and their main application in all possible configurations. SecurityAffairs – Kaspersky, hacking).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2022

Bleeping Computer reports that European organisations, specifically, are under threat from the Evilnum hacking group. 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. In times of conflict.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. Can you prove otherwise?

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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

JANUARY 10, 2019

In August 2018, Reddit warned users of a security breach, an attacker broke into the systems of the platform and accessed user data. The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Reddit, data breach).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

Think about password management. The average person, in their personal and professional life, may be managing as many as 200 application accounts, each with a password. Security professionals can step in and offer the ability, or capability, piece—the tool, a password manager—and show how to use it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

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 “They use lists of usernames and passwords gathered from the breaches you hear about nearly every day on the news. . The experts detected 8.3

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Hacks and breaches are inevitable even for the most well-protected enterprise. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons.

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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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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. “That’s because LastPass didn’t ask existing customers to change their master password. . And then he got hacked.

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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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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. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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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. There were a bunch of addresses in the Collection #1 incident and also in the 2,844 breach collection I added in Feb 2018 , but clearly based on the red "null" results there were also many new addresses.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. Also, looks like I have to update some passwords ?? Thank you, @troyhunt ??

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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. 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. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

“If you want proof we have hacked T-Systems as well. “Emotet continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware,” reads a July 2018 alert on the malware from the U.S. Cloud-based health insurance management portals. .” You may confirm this with them. Department of Homeland Security.

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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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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Taking the data breach figure from that six-month period in 2018 , roughly 45 million people could be hit with credential stuffing exploits implementing data compromised in the past year. This strategy is made easier with a password manager. When a CDN location changes, that can be an indicator of an attempted hack.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2020

The GRU stole confidential medical files from WADA's Anti-Doping Administration and Management System, then leaked sensitive information onto the internet. The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang were hit with an advanced and wide-ranging series of cyber attacks, reportedly causing disruption to the opening ceremony and the event's website.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 13, 2018. Always use a two-factor authentication mechanism when implemented by the service we access to, and use strong password that can be generated by password manager applications. Security Affairs – credential stuffing attacks, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The Weakest Security Link.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

In a moment, I’ll introduce you to someone who’s been working in the Identity and Access management space for nearly two decades. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. He loves password managers. I use a password manager. I use one every day.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2018

7 years ago now, I realised that the only secure password is the one you can't remember and from that day forward, I've been using 1Password exclusively as my password manager. When I released version 2 of Pwned Passwords, out of the blue they built it into their product. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 22, 2018.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In other words, every blocker you put in place is only one bad password, missing patch, or clever hack away from being bypassed. Q: 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of the WordPress software release. Invest in a password manager and start using it today. Will WordPress still be around in another 15 years?

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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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