Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

Google announced to have warned users of almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks during 2019. Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019.

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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. DeltaNewsHub CreativeCommons CC BY 2.0.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Users are strongly recommended to quickly upgrade their Bricks Builder Theme installations to this current version to reduce the risk of exploitation.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. CSP collaboration improves the security environment where there’s a need to mitigate the emerging risks quickly and comprehensively.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The general issue on piracy is about the use of illegal streaming boxes and apps and how these not only expose children to age-inappropriate content due to lack of parental control but also risk putting sensitive personal information in the hands of hackers and digital thieves. Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2014 eBay announced that over 145 million users’ information had been stolen, including names, addresses, date of birth, and passwords. failing to regularly update your theme, plugin, and core files is a huge security risk.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number of OT attacks. “ OT attacks hit an all-time high. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The fast food giant Burger King put their systems and data at risk by exposing sensitive credentials to the public for a second time. In 2019, due to a similar misconfiguration, the France branch reportedly leaked personally identifiable information (PII) of children who bought Burger King menus.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. DarkMatter confirmed as much in its Cyber Security Report: June 2019 when it found that approximately 90 percent of UAE-based enterprises exhibited outdated software, credential problems in the form of weak/exposed passwords and insecure protocols.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Tall Tale #1: PINs Are Just Passwords In Part 1 , we talked about how passwordless authentication is still multi-factor: Possession of a private key, ideally stored on a piece of secure hardware A biometric or PIN the authenticator uses to locally verify the user’s identity Reasoning about a PIN being used as a factor is simpler than a biometric.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. During 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported an increase in the number of BEC complaints related to the diversion of payroll funds. Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 10, 2024

The leaked customer information dates back to mid-2019 and earlier. Discovering whether your personal information has been compromised in the AT&T data breach is crucial to help prepare for the potential risks of your information being exposed on the dark web.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

While the internet and social media have been very positive for businesses, there remains an inherent risk when it comes to how brands manage their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. 1 : Cybercrime Businesses should always be very aware of the threat of cybercriminals, and social media also poses very real cyber-security risks.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Furthermore, from 2019–2023E, approximately USD 5.2 trillion in global value will be at risk from cyberattacks. That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. billion by 2022. Human error causes many data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It can be your login and password to your Office 365 or G Suite or some other information. Ransomware via Brute Force Attacks Researchers at F-Secure have found that in 2019, brute force attacks became one of the most preferred means of spreading ransomware. In 81% of cases , the passwords people use are weak and easily crackable.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

“ The World Health Organisation, in 2019, recognised burnout as being caused by chronic workplace stress that is not successfully managed. And these changes increase the risk of developing anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Naturally, attackers take advantage.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning TTPs, reminding those of APT groups to get their victims shell out.

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NopSec

MAY 22, 2019

CVE-2019-0708 – BlueKeep – Wormable RDP Vulnerability NopSec advises you to apply patches immediately. Fixes Due to the severity of CVE-2019-0708, we suggest you to apply patches immediately from Microsoft Security Guide. That is why Microsoft released patches even for out-of-the support versions Windows 2003 & XP.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 In that case, it would be a significant cybersecurity risk for businesses and individuals alike. Change Passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

A Digital Alert Systems EAS encoder/decoder that Pyle said he acquired off eBay in 2019. It had the username and password for the system printed on the machine. The DHS warning was prompted by security researcher Ken Pyle , a partner at security firm Cybir. “But nothing ever happened. .” Anything lower than version 4.1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

The vulnerabilities include the leak of the administrator password, a command injection issue and a Cross-Site Scripting in an unused “test” page. Below two vulnerabilities discovered in the MF920 ZTE 4G router: CVE-2019-3411 – Information Leak (7.5 0 base score) CVE-2019-3412 – Arbitrary Command Execution (9.8

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

After a data breach in 2023 Cerebral disclosed that it had been using invisible pixel trackers from Google, Meta (Facebook), TikTok, and other third parties on its online services since October 2019. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides, Privacy Risk Level In the musical words of Rockwell, ? “I The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019. Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose. Notwithstanding the risks discussed above, human identities still pose less of a concern than machine identities. In 2018 and 2019, for instance, the volume of reported digital attacks related to machine identities grew by over 400%. brooke.crothers. Related Posts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. Given the risk for abuse, this domain will not be published.”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts. Multi-factor authentication is so much more secure, and with that a lot more forgiving, than passwords alone. So we wholeheartedly agree with Amazon on this.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 26, 2020

Password: Password. The four most common consumer passwords of 2019 were “123456,” “123456789,” “qwerty,” and “password.” The question for legislators and insurers alike is not really if mandatory password regulations will be enacted when it comes to storing data in the cloud, but when.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Using a compromised password, an unauthorized third party accessed the provisioning system in our legacy code base for Managed WordPress.” ” The intruders used a compromised password to access the provisioning system in the company’s legacy code base for Managed WordPress. We reset both passwords.

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