Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2023

and Xerox Corporation provide a facility to export the contents of their Address Book encrypted, but the encryption strength is insufficient. I navigated away from the Address Book section of the device and clicked it again. This led him to reverse engineering the firmware to identify how the CipherValue (AKA the password) was derived.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

For children, concepts like cyber criminals, hackers, private information, and the vast idea of Internet dangers are abstract concepts. You can explain that hackers break in through the Internet to steal information. Can they create strong passwords? Can they keep their privacy by deciding not to share certain information?

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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. While they can’t directly read your password, they can still download malware or gather enough information to steal your identity.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They come in all shapes and sizes, lurking in the shadowy corners of the internet. They’ll try to sweet-talk you into clicking on suspicious links or divulging sensitive information like passwords or credit card details. You can also be a good internet citizen by forwarding these scams to the U.S. ’ Get creative!

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. According to an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most likely you didn’t pause before you clicked, and got phished or compromised in some other way–possibly by an internet of things device connected to your home network. Never buy a device that doesn’t allow you to set a long and strong password. password, 123456, qwerty, etc. Or use a password manager.).

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Identity IQ

JUNE 28, 2021

If your plans include booking a vacation home rental, take note as there have been some fake renting scams online that promise an incredible getaway that is almost too good to pass up. And there is the Boy Scout troops that booked two rental homes in Florida through Airbnb only to find empty lots when they arrived. Fake Rental Scams.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Security researchers from WizCase have discovered several vulnerabilities in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS. WD My Book, NetGear Stora. If you are using one of the above devices and they are connected on the WAN, make sure to remove your device from the internet. Summary of Our Findings.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is just one reason why we have an entire month devoted to internet awareness and staying safe online, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM). Utilize a Password Manager As humans we like things that are easy to remember, and that doesn’t change when it comes to passwords. How can you do so?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2021

You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic on public WiFi networks, and, importantly, you can obscure your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider, which may use that activity for advertising.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow along and find out everything the internet knows about… you! Along the way, as you get familiar with the tools and tactics of internet sleuths, you’ll get a better idea of your current internet footprint as well as know what tracks you leave in the future.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sometimes you don’t even need this level complexity as people often provide their full name and email (and other details) when booking tickets for example. That does not mean it is not right sometimes, if the targets have not changed a password in a while, they can still be valid. Did you read those terms and conditions carefully?

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated. These connected computers and the network that connects them -- collectively known as "the internet of things" -- affect the world in a direct physical manner.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. Unfortunately for us, Doug freaked out after deciding he’d been tricked — backing up his important documents, changing his passwords, and then reinstalling macOS on his computer.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. That changed on Jan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

From the past few hours, a news piece related to Wi-Fi vulnerability on Android phones is doing rounds on the internet and security analysts state that the threat could be larger than what is being projected. And the affected companies are mostly from IT and software development sector.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

According to a report published by researchers at PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps. In a report published on the 16 th of March by PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sharing is caring… but on the internet, sharing can also be tricky! Your phone number(s): Many social media networks let you look up friends through your contact book or by their phone number, and many other legitimate websites will use simple verification of your phone number as a way to prove your identity.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. ru , which for many years was a place to download pirated e-books. frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.” antivirusxp09[.]com).

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It was a Python script that accepts the following parameters: user, password, mail address and command line to be executed on the victim’s host. By using PowerShell Remoting the attacker sends a request to create an address book, passing encoded and serialized data with a special payload as a parameter.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It also doesn't work for the 24 million Lumin PDF accounts that were taken from a MongoDB instance "left exposed online without a password" as no security was violated. gets dumped and all the plain text passwords spread around the internet alongside email addresses and usernames. let's say catforum.com.au

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before booking a travel deal, thoroughly research the provider and check customer reviews. When booking a vacation rental, stick to reputable booking platforms and never wire money directly to the property owner. To make safe travel bookings , always use secure payment methods, such as credit cards with fraud protection.

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Errata Security

APRIL 1, 2020

Hackers can possibly exploit these to do evil things to you, such as steal your password. Unless you do bad things, like using the same password everywhere, it's unlikely to affect you. Using the same password everywhere is the #1 vulnerability the average person is exposed to, and is a possible problem here.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Password Checkup Chrome extension warns users about compromised logins. Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 20% discount.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Brute Force Attacks Brute force attacks involve systematically trying all possible combinations of passwords until the correct one is found. Hackers use automated tools to rapidly attempt multiple password combinations, exploiting weak or easily guessable passwords.

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SecureList

JUNE 21, 2023

It starts monitoring the screen lock state, and, when the device is unlocked, dumps keychain items from the genp (generic passwords), inet (Internet passwords), keys and cert tables (certificates, keys and digital identity) from the /private/var/Keychains/keychain-2.db 0xF402 CRXGetSchemas Retrieves a list of running processes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data. Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456. Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. Malspam campaign bypasses secure email gateway using Google Docs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

As an average person I had to refer to the book I read and to the movie I watch to experience the uncertainty caused by a full-blown pandemic. Much like in the book – and movie – Gabriel Garcia Marques, “Love in the time of cholera”. That difficult situation is now a reality in the US and in the rest of the world.

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