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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

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. PASSIVE DNS.

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Generated Passwords, UX and Security Absolutism

Troy Hunt

So why doesn't every site take away the ability for people to choose their own passwords? Why not just generate the password for them thus completely eradicating password reuse? It doesn't matter who generated the password. passwords ?? But how relevant is this criticism when the passwords are system-generated?

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Driving Passwordless Forward With WebAuthn

Duo's Security Blog

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. The problems with passwords Chrysta: Why was passwordless needed in the first place?

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Watch out, this LastPass email with "Important information about your account" is a phish

Malwarebytes

Although the " unauthorized party" that compromised LastPass users' data was able to steal password vaults, it's likely that they are having a hard time cracking them open. Brute force guessing techniques may be successful for some weak passwords, but it's an approach that quickly runs out of steam.

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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Best Internet Security Suites & Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. DNS leak protection Kill switch No log policy. Password Managers. Most password managers allow users to fill in their credentials with the click of a button.

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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

Krebs on Security

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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