Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP Security Note #3350297 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The New HotNews Note in Detail SAP Security Note #3411067 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, SAP has released a blog post on Security Note #3411067 that emphasizes the importance of updating the affected components.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’ll try to sweet-talk you into clicking on suspicious links or divulging sensitive information like passwords or credit card details. Your 7 tips to stay safe online Use strong passwords Let’s kick things off with the basics. Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. eXplorer.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. Additional info is available in the post published by Resecurity on its blog: [link].

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through the following: What is the Mayhem GitHub Action? with: registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }} username: ${{ github.actor }} password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} - name: Extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker id: meta uses: docker/metadata-action@v4.1.1

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2022

If you do, we’ve got your back, and we humbly suggest that when you’re done tagging your dog in every photo and getting your folder names just so, you turn your attention to your device security and give that a little dust off as well. Say “no” to duplicate passwords. How many online accounts do you have?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. I've regularly quoted the NCSC in particular, for example there's a bunch of their work in my recent blog post about authentication guidance for the modern era.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

The data was leaked in an October data breach, which Nitro confirmed, and was bundled for auction with a high price tag. Though Pixlr has yet to confirm the breach, it’s recommended users change passwords on Pixlr and any other sites sharing the same login credentials. Scottish environmental agency falls victim to ransomware attack.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He goes into more details in this thread: TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. Google has more information on this type of warning over on its security blog. There’s a chance this is a false alarm, but we believe we detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password.,

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A search on the ing.equipepro@gmail.com address at 4iq.com — a service that indexes account details like usernames and passwords exposed in Web site data breaches — shows this email address was used to register an account at the computer hacking forum cracked[.]to to for a user named “ fatal.001.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

HTML smuggling uses both the HTML5 “download” attribute and a JavaScript Blog to pull together the payload after it is downloaded into the victim’s device. As an added detection-evasion technique against endpoint security controls, the created JavaScript file is password-protected. It’s a never-ending cat-and-mouse race.”.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. In this blog, we will share the technical details of the attack chains, and will explain how we correlated this threat actor to Lazarus. The password for the file was mentioned in the email body.

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NetSpi Technical

JULY 13, 2023

Continuing our series on Anti-Scraping techniques, this blog covers implementation of Anti-Scraping protections in a fake message board and examination of how scrapers can adapt to these changes. The forgot password workflow used to reveal whether the provided username matched an existing account and would return the email address if it did.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

But naturally, at Carbonite + Webroot, we just wonder how they’ll be used and abused by cybercriminals or if they can be irrevocably lost like the password to a crypto wallet. It seems phishing for users’ passwords to the sites used to buy and sell NFTs is the main method of compromise. Non- what token?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

In the following sections, we will discuss: API Basics Common API Security Vulnerabilities Best Practices for API Security How to do API Security Automatically By the end of this blog post, you will have a good understanding of API security and the steps you can take to easily secure your APIs. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. User@first]@@[user@first]123) and a folder named PasswordPatterswhich includes building blocks for password guessing. Jason Project GUI. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What happens when several risks carry the same “medium” tag, leaving decision-makers pondering where to focus their attention and allocate precious resources? So they all rolled over, and one fell out. Enter the need for a more precise and actionable approach — Cyber Risk Quantification.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

No, it's not, but that didn't stop Oil and Gas International from logging a bug report with Mozilla : Your notice of insecure password and/or log-in automatically appearing on the log-in for my website, Oil and Gas International is not wanted and was put there without our permission. Please remove it immediately. It's like magic!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

I've now seen several versions of the same set of email addresses and passwords albeit with different attribution up the top of the file. They're simple passwords most likely cracked from other breaches. It's difficult to imagine someone creating an MPD account with that password. Not convinced? So where could they be from?

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Automated classification tags enable the institution to enforce stringent access controls and encryption measures, ensuring the utmost protection for sensitive financial data. Educate and train employees to recognize phishing attempts, use strong passwords, and follow secure data handling practices.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. Passwords This was never on the cards originally.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Password Hash Cracking, User Cloning, and User Impersonation: Three Risks Every SAP Customer Should Know. The vulnerability is tagged with a CVSS score of 9.6 Password Hash Values in SAP. The passwords of all SAP users are stored encrypted as hash values in transparent tables on the database. Wed, 10/19/2022 - 15:38.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. According to these blogs, at least 10 companies may have been impacted by these ransomware campaigns in the first two weeks of February. Blog BotenaGo. ‘psexec.exe -accepteula {Target} -u {user} -p {password} -s -d -f -c {payload}.exe Executive summary.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers. Encryption routine.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2022

For example, an attacker could change your password or transfer money from your bank account without your permission. But the SOP does not limit javascript code, and the HTML <script> tag is allowed to load Javascript code from any origin. The same-origin policy (SOP) usually controls data access cross-origins.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

ENTITY file SYSTEM "file:////etc/shadow" > ]> <example>&file;</example> The “/etc/shadow” file stores usernames and their encrypted passwords on Unix systems. dbf.setFeature("[link] false); XInclude is a special XML feature that builds a separate XML document from a tag. DOCTYPE example [ <!ENTITY

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In this blog, we describe two separate incidents. Extracting infected host information, including password hashes, from the registry sam dump. The malware operator also collected a registry sam dump containing password hashes: exe /c “reg.exe save hklmsam %temp%~reg_sam.save > “%temp%BD54EA8118AF46.TMP~”

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. The platform this very blog runs on, Ghost, is open source.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

Plus, the fingerprint reader means she can start getting into good security habits by regularly locking and unlocking the machine without risk of disclosing her password to others around her. Then, just as in the earlier video where she made my name tag, we sliced the file and defined a colour change point.

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NopSec

JULY 18, 2017

With that in mind, in this blog post we’re covering 13 out of the 20 controls. The CIS 20 controls are also known to be relatively difficult to implement fully. It is the type of framework that organizations need to build overtime, and improves with maturity.

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Kali Linux

MAY 15, 2022

Your browser does not support the video tag. We have a RSS feeds & newsletter of our blog ! Hacking as shown in popular media, has ranged from really fun to completely absurd, so we saw the opportunity to do a tribute to some of our favourite instances (and get a little nostalgic). And Twitter is not a Bug Tracker!

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But the SOP does not limit javascript code, and the HTML <script> tag is allowed to load Javascript code from any origin. Attackers might be able to alter critical system files like password files or log files, or add their own executables into script directories. security issues. The post Node.js

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

As part of our series on Digital Identity , this blog will look back on the personal identification techniques of previous eras to show how methods of identification have developed over the course of human history. 1961 – The first computer password. 100,000 years ago – Jewellery. 1046 BC – Tattoos.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). ONLY check active passwords via the #DOWNLOADED list!

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