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The North Face hit by credential stuffing attack

Malwarebytes

This has resulted in no fewer than 194,905 accounts being compromised. Credential stuffing is an attack reliant on service users being a little lax with their password practices. If the user has reused their password, the accounts on those additional sites will also be vulnerable. What is credential stuffing?

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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GUEST ESSAY: Understanding the security limits of the static and dynamic passwords we rely on

The Last Watchdog

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. In other words, dynamic passwords are changeable static passwords.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.