Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s a wealth of password management options available, some more desirable than others. The primary recommendation online is usually a software-based management tool.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The goal is to write down all of the accounts/addresses/phone numbers that come to mind, as these are some of the top things that attackers will try to gather in their search. Your email address(es): This is the other main way to look up contacts on social media, and for most people it’s also the strongest common link between accounts.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In a press release the company confirmed unauthorized access to customer online accounts. Neiman Marcus has also informed the affected customers, and forced an online account password reset for affected customers who haven’t changed their password since May 2020. According to the press release 4.6 What you can do.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. Show them these tips: Never use the same password twice. This is where a password manager comes in.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles. The most common root causes for initial breaches stem from social engineering and unpatched software, as those account for more than 90% of phishing attacks. What is phishing?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success. While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. Embrace Learning Management Systems That Enable Microlearning and Self-Service.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Brute Force Attacks Brute force attacks involve systematically trying all possible combinations of passwords until the correct one is found. Hackers use automated tools to rapidly attempt multiple password combinations, exploiting weak or easily guessable passwords. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Are they already firing out tweets, chatting in Discord channels, or even just looking to set up a Tik-Tok account? Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). They may already have email addresses and various social media accounts.

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Errata Security

APRIL 1, 2020

Hackers can possibly exploit these to do evil things to you, such as steal your password. Unless you do bad things, like using the same password everywhere, it's unlikely to affect you. Using the same password everywhere is the #1 vulnerability the average person is exposed to, and is a possible problem here.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Once again thank you!

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

We all rely on passwords. For better or worse, we will continue to use passwords to access our computing devices and digital services for years to come. Related : The coming of password-less access. Passwords were static to begin with. They have since been modified in two directions: biometrics and dynamic passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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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. Contacted on Feb.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. 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. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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Webroot

JUNE 25, 2021

Password predictability is one of the most significant challenges to overall online security. Well aware of this trend, hackers often seek to exploit what they assume are the weak passwords of the average computer user. How are passwords cracked? How are passwords cracked? The problem is password predictability.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. When writing the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document all the steps that you would need to become invisible online. There are a lot. It's crazy.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

From an optional password manager feature in Safari that looks out for saved passwords involved in data breaches to new digital security for car keys on Apple Watches and the iPhone, the security sweep appears to be comprehensive. Adware accounted for another 22 percent.

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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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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Use unique, strong passwords, and store them in a password manager. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi: My book discusses how the perception of cyberattacks shifted from being mere data breaches to having real-world consequences, especially after high-profile cases in 2021, like Colonial Pipeline and Schreiber Foods. LW: You discuss password management and MFA; how big a bang for the buck is adopting best practices in these areas?

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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! Everywhere.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

There are security/hacker types that maintain massive repositories of passwords. Change all default passwords to something unique and strong. Most home networks get broken into through either phishing or some random device they have with a bad password. This is the most important thing in this article.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Protect the credentials to these systems in a password manager or credential vault (such as Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager). Likewise, keep your credentials for your cloud backup solutions in your key vault, not in some password file on your IT share. Force MFA on all interactive accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For about two years’ worth of evenings, I read all the CISSP books I could get my hands on. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I took a week off before the test to spend all day in a last push. I was so happy when I passed.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s about how they started with a deliberately misconfigured version of CosmosDB and ended up with complete unrestricted access to the accounts and the databases of thousands of Microsoft Azure customers. Is it in my account? Is it in someone else's account? Actually, that’s not how it happened.

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