Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! Everywhere.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

“Additionally, the integrity of user data is damaged to the extent that an attacker can insert malicious files of their choice which pass all authenticity checks of the client,” reads the paper published by ETH Zurich’s researchers. The researchers devised five attacks that rely on stealing and deciphering an RSA key.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The findings come as highlights of Group-IB whitepaper titled “ Ransomware Uncovered: Attackers’ Latest Methods ,” closely examining the evolution of the ransomware operators’ strategies over the past year, issued today. More recommendations can be found in the relevant section of the whitepaper. . Big Game Hunting. How it all began.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Authentication. Authentication is the process of an individual proving they are the identity they claim by providing credentials. Examples of credentials include a pin or password. Once an individual has been authenticated, they are given access, or authorization, to specified information and resources. Authorization.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2021

What’s more, the range of data that can be stored by connected cars is broad – from contact details and addresses, to Wi-Fi passwords and many other things. PKI also uses encryption, authentication and identity checks to keep the data moving securely to and from the vehicle.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

How could remote access capabilities be installed without proper security policies and strong authentication being enforced? Default passwords are widely used for technicians to gain easier access to machines. Most IT professionals would be very surprised. How did this industrial workstation become accessible from the Internet?

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2014

In the case of Indiana University, a change in the security protections for a web server inadvertently allowed the site to be accessed without the necessary authentication. The attacker uploaded a Trojan horse containing malware that found the passwords for some IT managers. So what were the lessons learned?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 12, 2022

Because they are actively running code, DAST tools monitor and "listen in" on traffic between the client browser and web server when they interact with each other, such as during authentication or when data is submitted by the user. It can detect hard-coded passwords and other security vulnerabilities which are invisible to SAST.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2021

The use of passwords, for example, in isolation, no longer meets the needs of a society that relies so heavily on being online – given they are a relatively weak form of authentication. We have also published a whitepaper on the topic which you can download for free here. appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Weak access and permissions, therefore, may cause data breaches through: Inadequate authentication – weak verifications can result in data breaches by unauthorized employees in the organization. Yahoo also recorded a breach that affected 1 billion accounts in 2013, where names and passwords were stolen.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

I knew very little about Windows authentication at the time, so when the other red teamer investigated the idea and told us it wasn’t possible, I left it at that. Traditionally this has involved various methods to retrieve plaintext passwords, hashes, or Kerberos keys/tickets. Before September 2016 they were (probably?

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