Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2019

Trend Micro addressed 2 DLL hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager that could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and much more. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-14684, could allow an authenticated attacker to run with SYSTEM privileges an arbitrary, unsigned DLL file within a trusted process. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. An expert discovered a flaw in the LastPass password manager that exposes login credentials entered on a site previously visited by a user. Go to [link] , when prompted for password click the little “…” icon.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That Was Then, This is Now 2FA Usage Continues its Climb Two-factor authentication has become notably more prevalent over the last two years, with 79% of respondents reporting having used it in 2021, compared to 53% in 2019 and 28% in 2017. Email is the second most common second factor (74%), with a notable increase compared to 2019 (57%).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to a study published in December by SplashData of the more than 5 million passwords compromised by hacks last year, way too many were laughably inadequate. Another year has come and gone, and consumers are still using the same old bad passwords to protect their accounts. Here’s the top 25: 1. 123456789.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Occasionally though, the corpus of data is of much greater significance, most notably the Collection #1 incident of early 2019. Website, username and password: That's just the first 20 rows out of 5 million in that particular file, but it gives you a good sense of the data. Is it legit? The VideoScribe service on line 9: Exists.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’. Have I Been Pwned?’

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

The latest update released by Mozilla for Firefox patches a flaw in Firefox Password Manager that can be exploited to access stored passwords. fixes a vulnerability that can be exploited to bypass the master password in Firefox Password Manager and access stored passwords.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

World Password Day is celebrated in May every year and is being done since 2013 as a group of Cybersecurity Professionals declared the first Thursday of May every year as the day to celebrate as the security day of our online lives. And remember, passwords can be stolen, compromised and can be easily forgotten.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2021

Media has been trying its best to create awareness among online users about the need to go for passwords that are difficult to guess or hack. Despite that, most users are seen indulging in a pursuit of using the same password on multiple platforms and that too which is easy to guess for hackers through password spray cyber attacks.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Just 15 percent of people use a password manager. Just 35 percent of people have unique passwords for most or all of their accounts. Creating strong, unique passwords is simple enough, as any person can throw a cat at a keyboard and likely fulfill the password requirements for most online accounts.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? That's it, job done, they're into your account.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

There has probably been a time in your life when you created a new account for a website or service and chose a password that was less than ideal. NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. It is worth taking a look to make sure your password has not made the list.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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Zero Day

JUNE 9, 2025

According to the official MacOS Tahoe preview page , the 2019 16-inch Mac Pro, 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 iMac, and 2020 MacBook Pro will be the last four to receive the new OS. This means that starting in 2026, you must own an M1 or newer MacBook to receive all the improvements and new features that MacOS 27 will bring.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

PT The 2019 iMac is one of the Mac devices that won't get MacOS 26 Tahoe. That includes my 2019 iMac.  Check this list Apple just announced a slew of attention-grabbing software updates, but not all devices are supported. Written by Maria Diaz, Staff Writer June 12, 2025 at 7:12 a.m.

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Zero Day

JUNE 11, 2025

PT The 2019 iMac is one of the Mac devices that won't get MacOS 26 Tahoe. That includes my 2019 iMac.  Apple just announced a slew of attention-grabbing software updates, but not all devices are supported. Written by Maria Diaz, Staff Writer June 11, 2025 at 12:53 p.m.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Change your passwords. If you’re using the same password across a number of accounts, you are more vulnerable to cyber criminals. This is especially risky if you’re using the same password for your credit card and banking accounts. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% On top of that, 80.5% Bottom line.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

rows of email addresses and passwords in total, but only 1.6B — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 25, 2019. 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.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

Back in October 2022, I wrote an article called Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong. Most damningly of all, the vast effort involved in dispensing this advice over decades has generated little discernible improvement in people’s password choices.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. These systems store your passwords in a single encrypted vault. But protecting your password manager is a password… so what do you set your password manager password to?

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Zero Day

JUNE 10, 2025

According to the official MacOS Tahoe preview page , the 2019 16-inch Mac Pro, 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 iMac, and 2020 MacBook Pro will be the last four to receive the new OS. This means that starting in 2026, you must own an M1 or newer MacBook to receive all the improvements and new features that MacOS 27 will bring.

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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. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain. The security expert Linus Henze has disclosed the existence of a zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave that can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. You can start with the most basic measure of changing the router’s password to a stronger one before moving to advance options that involve router configuration. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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Zero Day

JUNE 10, 2025

According to the official MacOS Tahoe preview page , the 2019 16-inch Mac Pro, 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 iMac, and 2020 MacBook Pro will be the last four to receive the new OS. This means that starting in 2026, you must own an M1 or newer MacBook to receive all the improvements and new features that MacOS 27 will bring.

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