Adam Levin

AUGUST 3, 2018

Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” announced a security breach that occurred over a three-day period in June. Eleven-year-old member information presents a lesser magnitude than it potentially could have been since the site’s user base has expanded significantly over the last few years. What Happened.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. com — is different from the one I saw in late December, but it was hosted at the same Internet address as officesuited[.]com

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

No matter how many letters, numbers, or special characters you give them and no matter how many times you change them, passwords are still @N0T_FUN! Using strong passwords and a password manager 2. Enabling multi-factor authentication 3. Held in October, each week there will be a different focus on a key behavior: 1.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Experts at Tenable discovered 15 vulnerabilities in eight wireless presentation systems, including flaws that can be exploited to remotely hack devices. Wireless presentation systems are used to display content on a screen or through several devices, including mobile devices and laptops. ” reads the analysis published by Tenable.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. During authentication, the secret is used in combination with the time in a cryptographic hash function to produce a secure 6-digit passcode. Why yes, it did.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Cybernews research team discovered that Strendus, a Mexican-licensed online casino, had left public access to 85GB of its authentication logs, with hundreds of thousands of entries containing private gamblers’ data. IP addresses are used to ensure that internet communications are sent and received by the intended device.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

A new malware named Cuttlefish targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data. Cuttlefish has a modular structure, it was designed to primarily steal authentication data from web requests passing through the router from the local area network (LAN).

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Your passwords are on the internet. Talks of passkeys, passphrases, and even password less all point in one direction: eroding faith in the previously trusty password tucked under your keyboard. These habits highlight the need for more modern password technology and stronger authentication methods.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once they’re in, they can grab your emails, usernames, passwords, and more. They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. Avoid entering any data if you see a warning message about a site’s authenticity. Most browsers will alert you if a site isn’t secure.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc The malware gathers login information, like usernames and passwords stored on web-browsers, which it sends to another system via email.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The experts at Tenable Research presented the technique on October 7 at DerbyCon 8.0 The most critical of these vulnerabilities is the authenticated RCE, which would allow attackers to potentially gain full system access. “All of these vulnerabilities require authentication (essentially legitimate credentials).

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model. Compared to Broken Access Control, Sensitive Data Exposure contained a greater number of low-risk vulnerabilities, but high-risk ones were present as well.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Why do I need a certificate? WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. ru in 2008.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

Here are four evolving themes reverberating from RSAC 2023 that struck me: Password enabled access will endure for the foreseeable future. Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors. Two impromptu meetings I had touched on this.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2023

Here are three evolving themes reverberating from RSAC 2023 that struck me: Getting a grip on identities Password enabled access will endure for the foreseeable future. Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. During authentication, the secret is used in combination with the time in a cryptographic hash function to produce a secure 6-digit passcode. Why yes, it did.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 9, 2023

IdentityIQ monitoring services protect you by scanning the internet and dark web for your personal information and alerting you in real-time, so you can take quick action. To protect yourself from falling victim to this, it’s a good idea to create a “family password” known only to your family.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

billion stolen usernames, passwords and other personal data. 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. Two-factor authentication, or even better, FIDO/U2F.”

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 22, 2023

toasty Something curious has been happened over the last few months — more and more ransomware group victims have Outlook Web App facing the internet. I contacted a few of the ransomware victim organisations with Exchange and not much else presented to the internet and asked what the deal was. Obviously, almost nobody replied.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The confidentiality of information in internet communications. Internet communications use the protocol called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), which allows information to be transmitted from one computer to another through a series of intermediate computers and networks. The hash function.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Being constantly connected to the internet, they are either protected by basic passwords or, in some cases, have no password protection at all. Challenges in securing IoMT devices The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is essentially a subset of the wider Internet of Things (IoT) concept.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. The intruders used a compromised password to access the provisioning system in the company’s legacy code base for Managed WordPress. We reset both passwords.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 28, 2023

The following tips work for both businesses and individuals, so start practicing them today: Frequently Change Your Passwords A common mistake most people make at home and work is not changing their passwords frequently and keeping the simplest password so that it could be remembered easily.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Pappachen said Sizmek forced a password reset on all internal employees (“a few hundred”), and that the company is scrubbing its SAS user database for departed employees, partners and vendors whose accounts may have been hijacked. ” PASSWORD SPRAYING. BRUTE-FORCE LIGHT.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

The leaked dump includes name, address, present address, telephone number, citizenship, diagnosis date, result, result date, and many more. Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 30, 2021

Using the same password for all software applications increase the chances of cybercriminals learning an individual’s log-in credentials and gaining unauthorized access – resulting in data theft, identity theft and other harm. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a solution that combats password fatigue. fewer requests to reset passwords).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The prolific use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) present new challenges we must address and new questions we must answer. In that particular case, however, they sought supporting materials in a manner similar to the use of an internet search engine. It is not an authentication protocol.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

It also eliminates the need for full VPN and avoids exposing those applications directly to the internet. Then it verifies user identity with advanced multi-factor authentication (MFA). Untrusted remote users need a secure way to navigate the internet and corporate firewalls to establish trust and gain access.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)?” Today, many people when they sign up for a new account for an internet-based service are asked to pick a password to help secure their account from unauthorized access. A password is considered “something you know”, a secret more or less that shouldn’t be shared. Let’s dive in!

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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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Often, messages about online security are presented as ‘to-do’ lists that can make even the most pliant of us feel like we are being preached to. For children, concepts like cyber criminals, hackers, private information, and the vast idea of Internet dangers are abstract concepts. Can they create strong passwords?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In order to compromise the target network, the attackers conducted a brute-force password guessing attack against an un-enrolled and inactive account. “The actors leveraged mostly internal Windows utilities already present within the victim network to perform this activity.” Require all accounts with password logins (e.g.,

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

At present the scheme is running against v3.2.1. Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Section 6 A requirement coming into force in March 2025 is that organisations will need to have a web application firewall in place for any web applications exposed to the internet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many banks and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code that needs to be entered in addition to a password for online authentication. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2023

Every keystroke, every website you visit, and every password you type is recorded by a piece of software or hardware called a keylogger or keystroke logger. Keylogging records every keystroke on a computer or other device, including usernames and passwords. Also, change all your passwords. How Does Keylogging Work?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this thorough presentation, Grimes covers all elements of ransomware attacks, from working with lawyers to how attackers run a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Patch software requiring internet access regularly. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). The root of ransomware attacks and preparing for the worst.

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