CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A few simple changes to your devices and accounts can help discourage cyber criminals from trying to access your data. This short guide presents some quick measures you can take to protect your privacy and keep your personal info safe. Ideally, your online accounts should be equipped with two-step factor authentication.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

While the digital landscape offers unprecedented convenience and connectivity, it also presents many risks. Be Mindful of Your Online Accounts Your online accounts are key access points to your digital identity. Begin by cleaning up old accounts. Consider employing a password manager to organize and track them securely.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These days, users need an ever-growing number of online accounts to stay connected with their friends, colleagues, and employers. Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. Best Password Manager Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If you’re looking for a password manager for your business, Bitwarden and LastPass might be on your list of potential solutions. Both vendors will help you and your employees store access credentials, improve password health, and share sensitive information securely. PBKDF2 SHA-256 encryption for master passwords.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 22, 2021

At present, the OneLogin survey also revealed that as many as 26% of respondents are sharing their work computer with others and 23% have admitted to downloading personal applications. For instance, employees should be encouraged to create independent user accounts for family members and friends, where access to work files is restricted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. These types of campaigns are meant to guess users’ passwords by successively attempting commonly employed combinations as well as those that use well-known dictionary words.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

While the cloud presents a wealth of opportunity for increased productivity, connectivity and convenience, it also requires a new set of considerations for ensuring safe use. But a good way to think of it is this: Many passwords, one breach. One password…. Don’t use public Wi-Fi hotspots without using a VPN for encryption.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. In this way, the attacker can count on their victim to solve any authentication challenge presented.

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Pen Test Partners

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The malicious server will proxy the traffic and present the victim with the legitimate sign on journey. Therefore, before repacking the credentials back up in TLS encryption, the proxy server has full sight of them from the victim. Use a password manager Provide a password manager to all staff to store and manage credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Everyone has a seemingly endless number of accounts that require login credentials. This creates a lot of opportunities for hackers to gain access to company resources because users often reuse passwords or mirror patterns in creating them. Top Password Manager Software. Password auto-filling.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). AI algorithms can create and manage fake accounts, engage in discussions, and propagate misleading information to manipulate users. Use a password manager to securely store and manage your passwords.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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. to $199 for business accounts. There are two types to choose from: an individual account and a company account. All presented with real examples.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

While big tech phases in new authentication solutions, Dashlane — a password manager used by more than 20,000 companies and more than 15 million users — made a full switch. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager. See the Top Password Managers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Rainbow table attacks are an effective tactic for threat actors targeting password database vulnerabilities presenting inadequate privacy and security functionality. Practices like password salting and patching hash algorithms are crucial for combatting rainbow table attacks. Cryptology: Cryptography vs Cryptanalysis.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

GDPR and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are just two very public representations of data protection, and we are seeing increased policy discussions around access to data in social media applications like Tik Tok. The problem with encryption, though, is that it requires human cooperation.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

This presents myriad business opportunities. SIM-jacking or SIM swap fraud will increase: This sophisticated attack allows a hacker to steal your cell phone number and with that, any account associated with it. Here are a few predictions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has long been essential for IT service management and remote access. Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Rainbow table attacks are an effective tactic for threat actors targeting password database vulnerabilities presenting inadequate privacy and security functionality. Practices like password salting and patching hash algorithms are crucial for combatting rainbow table attacks. Cryptology: Cryptography vs Cryptanalysis.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

To be crystal clear, none of this is "hacking", it will merely involve looking at how the system responds to legitimate requests and observing the gap between what it does at present and what it ideally should do. Geo-Blocking is (Almost) Useless. A little context first: the Aadhaar website runs over at uidai.gov.in

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Authentication and password management. Implement password hashing on a trusted system.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2021

Read on for a look into the terminology, dynamics, and advancements presented by OAuth. Possibly misused more than any two terms in networking, authorization and authentication represent unique security processes of identity and access management. Also Read: How to Prevent Password Encryption Exploits.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2023

Another common scenario involves creating new user accounts with high-level permissions and then abusing them to blemish the Internet footprint and reputation of your resource. Again, easy-to-hack WordPress themes and plugins account for the vast majority of these incursions.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

I've been either lucky or fortunate to spend just over 20 years in the identity and access management space just through luck and chance and, and booked with industry in different software vendors and such and it's been really fascinating to see things change in the identity space. He loves password managers.

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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.

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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.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

In particular, Mozilla was instrumental in the birth of Let's Encrypt , the free and open certificate authority that's massively increased the adoption of HTTPS on the web. There's also a bunch of other ways 1Password can use the data to streamline how users protect their accounts and that's something we're actively discussing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Behind the scenes, target applications and systems still maintain their own credential stores and present sign-on prompts to the user’s system. Single Sign-On (SSO) responds to those prompts and maps the credentials to a single login/password pair. Password Vault. Privileged Access Management (PAM). Source: Gartner).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. It’s an interesting story, one they presented at Black Hat Europe in 2021, so I hope you’ll stick around. Is it in my account? Is it in someone else's account?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

These threats include: Spoofed websites : Threat actors direct internet users to sites that look legitimate but are designed to steal their account credentials. Email-based phishing attacks : These can include both of the above attacks and typically target employees through their business email accounts.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Some employees are not strictly using their business accounts for work-related purposes. For example, 42% of workers say they are using personal email accounts for work and nearly half (49%) have admitted to increasing how often they do this. The cybercriminals were after login credentials for accounts on the official WHO site.

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