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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2018

Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. Postal Service or the Social Security Administration.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The work of these researchers shows how, at the end of the day, much of the stolen personal data eventually spills over into the open Internet, where it is free for the taking by anyone with a modicum of computer skills. And once they do, they swiftly try to gain access to accounts on other popular services. Credential stuffing.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

You would choose a password that only you knew, and without that password, no one could get access to your account. Of course, the idea of the password is still there, but as cybercriminals have become adept at "cracking" passwords via the use of software, there has had to be an advance in technology to deal with the issue.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. The last one from Betfair is a great example and the entire thread is worth a read.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In our last article, you cleared out your extraneous digital footprints by removing unnecessary accounts and opting-out of data broker services, and have finished a dedicated review of your online history. Before becoming the series you’ve just read, I presented a version of this many times as a live talk at conferences and training sessions.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It encompasses various forms of cybercrime and online harm, including cyberstalking, tracking, hacking accounts and intimate image abuse. RELATED: Apple and Google Unite to Combat Stalking via Bluetooth Trackers ] Tech abuse can be present in a number of different ways.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. Don’t re-use passwords.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. 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.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

It's after as much clean-up as I could reasonably do and per the previous paragraph, the source data was presented in a variety of different formats and levels of "cleanliness". There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. people presently use the free notification service and 768k of them are in this breach. Thank you, @troyhunt ??

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But while consenting adults can and increasingly do agree to share passwords, locations, and devices with their romantic partners, another statistic deserves scrutiny: 41 percent of the people who admitted to monitoring their partners said they did so without permission. These numbers are less open to interpretation.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

From poor password management to not enabling 2FA or actively threat hunting , users must be vigilant when protecting their digital assets. Also Read: Best Password Management Software & Tools for 2021. One account owner broke down the hackers TTPs as: Accessed wallet with valid account credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

The Rise of the Sovereign Cloud sparsh Thu, 05/25/2023 - 04:04 One of the big ironies about data on the internet is that once the goal of achieving a centreless web of data communication (the internet itself) had been developed and built out, the next area of focus became how to draw borders around it.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

To date, HIBP has been around for almost a decade, and through the years, it has only proven itself to be an essential tool for everyday internet users, governments, and organizations alike. The site is simply intended to be a free service for people to assess risk in relation to their account being caught up in a breach. Yes, it is.

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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. Common Types of Cryptanalytic Attacks.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, the internet continues to split, with certain resources being banned in certain countries, so the tracker landscape will most likely change in the near future. Transparency and accountability within the AR/VR ecosystem may be in the focus as well. In 2023, we did not see any significant changes in tracker distribution.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections Public Internet Threats If your enterprise network is connected to the public internet, every single threat on the internet can render your business vulnerable too. These threaten enterprise networks because malicious traffic from the internet can travel between networks.

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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. Common Types of Cryptanalytic Attacks.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Today, however, I came across something a bit different by way of a story from last week titled 3,000 Databases with 200 Million Unique accounts found on Dark Web. But here's what was particularly interesting: the bcrypt accounts include the salt whilst the SHA1 accounts don't.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importantly, if the Internet were to achieve such a promise, then everyone, no matter their gender, race, income level, education, or age, could feel as safe and as private online as they deserve. Teenagers were, perhaps understandably, twice as likely as those aged 65 and up to have their social media accounts hacked.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

I kept collecting plain text passwords as I processed data breaches with the thinking that I'd have a good sense of when the scale was sufficient to publish a V3. It's not a trivial task - crunching the data, updating the counts, dumping it into different formats, uploading tens of GBs (over Aussie internet.), Thank you, @troyhunt ??

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Two drivers of this conflict are not having a separate room for every family member who needs to work from home (26%) and arguments about how much children should use the Internet (33%). Some employees are not strictly using their business accounts for work-related purposes. Most common shadow IT in use. IronHusky / ViciousPanda.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet. To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It's probably a scary image, one that's a bit mysterious, a shady character lurking in the hidden depths of the internet. Incidentally, the media piece led to a company's website which led to a request for your personal information - no free email accounts allowed - before you could read the content.). that's pretty much it.

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