Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. For further information, see our blog post: [link] — Security Response (@msftsecresponse) October 29, 2020.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The probe also found no evidence of access to Microsoft’s production services or customer data, according to a blog post penned by Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity. Vectra Chief Technology Officer Oliver Tavakoli applauded Microsoft’s endorsement of a zero trust architecture.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

According to a blog penned by the Okta CISO, here’s what happened: On January 20 2022, a third-party customer support engineer working for Okta had their account compromised by Lapsus$. Review cloud admin/super admin account audit logs. Review all executive accounts including MFA method changes. MFA Bypass Attempt.

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Hackology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With its decentralized and private peer-to-peer architecture , Utopia ensures that your data transmission and storage are free from any central server involvement. Say goodbye to email and phone number verification – Utopia allows you to create a username and password, granting you instant access to its secure messenger.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

CEO Todd McKinnon tweeted, “In late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third-party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors. At ShiftLeft we elected to use an agent-based architecture that does not require us to upload all your source code into our systems. request-demo/.

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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. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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Adam Shostack

MARCH 5, 2020

More precisely, since I don’t have an Amazon developer account, I’m going to look at the blog post, and infer some stuff about the underlying documentation.). The differences in “what to do” indicate differences of one or more of implied architecture, analytic technique, and mitigative action.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The probe also found no evidence of access to Microsoft’s production services or customer data, according to a blog post penned by Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity. Vectra Chief Technology Officer Oliver Tavakoli applauded Microsoft’s endorsement of a zero trust architecture.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Compliance and Accountability: In an era of stringent regulations like GDPR and HIPAA , accountability is critical. Determining Standards and Designs: Your standards and designs should reflect the needs of your organization, taking into account your unique business requirements. Ensure all systems work together seamlessly.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

x.xPerforming authentication attempts… =Target vulnerable, changing account password to empty stringResult: 0Exploit complete! This vulnerability is critical and is based on an encryption flaw, and allows changing the account machine password to empty. DOMAIN_NAME 192.168.x.xPerforming Final Thoughts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

Infected devices were used for multiple malicious activities, including traffic redirections through mobile proxies, info-stealing, click fraud, and social media and online messaging accounts and monetization via advertisements. Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Cisco Security

MAY 25, 2022

In this blog, we’ll review a concept that has been foundational to networking and cybersecurity from the beginning: the session. All sessions use some type of account or credential to authenticate and evaluate a set of variables to determine authorization or access. Why focus on the session?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Attackers have generated new admin accounts and uploaded malicious JAR files containing web shells using the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment, enabling numerous malicious actions. This architecture reduces the size of the operating system by introducing “ghost files” that refer to different system volumes.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dirk-jan found that the “Write Account Restrictions” property set in Active Directory includes the ability to write to the “ms-DS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity” property, which allows you to perform the RBCD attack. You can read more about the property in Dirk-jan’s fantastic blog post. SyncLAPSPassword.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. Here's what it's all about: There's Now 501,636,842 Pwned Passwords.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. What is phishing? Signs of fraudulent URLs are easy to rniss, especially with tricks like combining ‘r’ and ‘n’ to look like an ‘m’ (how many did you catch?).

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Not using easy to decrypt passwords or the same password for multiple accounts. Security consultants identify exploitable flaws in the security architecture, detective controls, and preventative controls to help build strategies that effectively secure and protect the environment from malicious actors.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 26, 2021

The stats tell the story: “Breaches containing compromised credentials (usernames and passwords) increased +450% in 2020 and ransomware attacks in 2021 have already surpassed last year including sharp spikes in key verticals, including government (917%), education (615%), healthcare (594%) and retail (264%) organizations.” . What Is RBAC?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On January 25, 2024, Microsoft published a blog post that detailed their recent breach at the hands of “Midnight Blizzard”. In this blog post, I will explain the attack path “Midnight Blizzard” used and what Azure admins and defenders should do to protect themselves from similar attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords. In addition, they aren’t taking responsibility for failures in their solutions if they were to occur, such as User IDs and passwords being stolen.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and the Threat Intelligence Team. In this blog post we are providing additional details about SideCopy that have not been published before. They also exfiltrated documents that are password protected. It seems this machine has been infected using one of the generic lures.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Spending on SaaS services is the largest of all cloud services according to Gartner, accounting for around 37% of the entire market , much larger than the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) markets. The post Grip Security Blog 2022-10-18 17:55:04 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat’s distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. Environment Variables Network Interfaces Administrator privileges List of running processes Proxy information Username List of all the User accounts.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Use Best Password Practices. End users should be trained not to use easy to decrypt passwords and/or the same password for multiple accounts. This makes simple but essential information security protocols like proper monitoring, network segmentation, and working toward a zero-trust architecture challenging.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat's distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. The used lure is in Russian is called " Information security memo " which provide security practices for passwords, confidential information, etc.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

This round of attacks, including simple but effective techniques such as password spraying, the process of using a known email address coupled with common passwords, such as 12345678, shows how powerful low-tech approaches are. “To In this case, the attackers leveraged information gleaned from a Microsoft worker’s computing device.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2020

The other thing that we need to know about the decoy is its architecture within the deception network. There is more detail on this in an earlier blog post, Part 4: Introducing Forensics. This architectural issue is an important one because the various decoys share memory on the VM that houses them. from 193.228.91.110.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2024

When reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering to yourself why RADIUS is being highlighted as a subject — especially amidst all of the advancements of modern authentication we see taking place recently. The password itself is never actually sent over the network. First, let's level-set on what we are talking about.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

With the proper validation, you can authenticate a user (human or machine) and authorize them to access privileged services, accounts, and applications. As machines and humans both have identities that require authentication, the list of credentials to keep track of and protect can include: Passwords. One-time password devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 19, 2021

This blog is part of an ongoing blog series for Duo’s Universal Prompt Project. The project is a major re-architecture and redesign of the Duo multi-factor authentication experience. Once credentials are compromised, hackers can take over user accounts; even change the passwords and lock users out.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . Believe it or not, a lot of RDP abuse comes from simple brute-force password guessing on the Internet-exposed service. MFA/Password Security. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the results of a vulnerability research study focused on a popular model of smart pet feeder. The root account credentials for this Telnet server can be easily recovered by extracting the firmware from the device and cracking the hashes from the /etc/shadow file.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

focuses on developing stronger authentication requirements around NIST Zero Trust Architecture guidelines. now mandates that multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for all accounts that have access to the cardholder data, not just administrators accessing the cardholder data environment (CDE). What Is PCI DSS?

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog, see the depth of Duo integrations with various AWS applications and services, and learn how you can better equip your organization with security that frustrates the attackers and not the users. Additionally, it imposes a substantial workload on IT administrators responsible for user account management. Did you know?

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Kali Linux

MAY 15, 2022

VirtualBox Shared Folder Support If you are using VirtualBox, when a user account is created, it is now automatically added to the vboxsf group by default. kali7-amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. We have a RSS feeds & newsletter of our blog !

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. According to the Software Engineering Institute, software architecture or coding flaws are responsible for up to 90% of security problems. Authentication and password management. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Input validation.

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