Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2024

The UK government is taking cybersecurity seriously and proving it with a new version of. The post What the UK’s New Password Laws Mean for Global Cybersecurity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 28, 2019

The Japanese government's decision to log into users' IoT devices has sparked outrage in Japan. However, the government's plan has its technical merits. Many of today's IoT and router botnets are being built by hackers who take over devices with default or easy-to-guess passwords.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

But without the protection of a password, there’s a decent chance your next Zoom meeting could be “Zoom bombed” — attended or disrupted by someone who doesn’t belong. zWarDial, an automated tool for finding non-password protected Zoom meetings.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2024

unique passwords provided by law enforcement agencies into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) following botnet takedowns in a campaign they've coined Operation Endgame. The only data we've been provided with is email addresses and disassociated password hashes, that is they don't appear alongside a corresponding address.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The service that allows users to verify if their login data was made public, named Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), has been recently helped to expand their database of passwords by the UK government. The National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom has shared with this service over 585 million passwords. This method is […].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released NIST Special Publication 800-63B Digital Identity Guidelines to help organizations properly comprehend and address risk as it relates to password management on the part of end users.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 17, 2023

Among the leaked data were briefings on domestic US terrorism marked “For Official Use Only,” a global counter-terrorism assessment document with the words “Not Releasable to the Public or Foreign Governments” on its cover, crew lists for ships, and maps and photos of military bases. Now that the government of Mali is administering the.ML

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Central government employees of India will receive a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Cyber Attacks by this month and suggesting measures to take before a cyber attack and steps to mitigate risks, if in case, an organization becomes a victim to a digital attack.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2023

NortonLifeLock is warning customers their passwords are loose. The post Another Password Manager Breach: NortonLifeLock Apes LastPass appeared first on Security Boulevard. First LastPass, now this?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the result of a security audit: More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, The post Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One) appeared first on Security Boulevard. and ChangeItN0w!—were

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Businesses are striving to create better customer experiences, but reliance on password-based authentication is holding them back. The post Are Passwords Killing Your Customer Experience? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2024

Accepting calendar invitations within the platform may now pose a serious risk to the security of user passwords. A recent Outlook vulnerability, patched in December 2023 is still hiding for unpatched users, could expose your password with just a single click. The post Can MS Outlook Calendar Leak Your Password?

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Iran-linked OilRig threat actor targeted an unnamed Middle East government between February and September 2023 as part of an eight-month-long campaign.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The post Best of 2023: Another Password Manager Leak Bug: But KeePass Denies CVE appeared first on Security Boulevard. Two researchers report vulnerability in KeePass. But lead developer Dominik Reichl says it’s not a problem—and refuses to fix the flaw.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2023

It's bad news for the US Department of the Interior—a Government watchdog’s security audit has revealed its passwords are simply not up to the job of warding off cracking attempts. Department of the Interior: Easily Cracked Passwords, Lack of Multifactor Authentication, and Other Failures Put Critical DOI Systems at Risk.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2023

It was always Netflix’s policy to prohibit such account and password sharing—it’s just that Netflix finally began enforcing the. The post Netflix: Is Password-Sharing a Crime? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The group often exploited access to government infrastructure to target other government entities. “Earth Krahang abuses the trust between governments to conduct their attacks.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Not one of them involves passwords. Multi-factor authentication If changing passwords is like the eating your veggies of the security world, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more like eating fresh fruits. And since MFA already requires an established password, you're already halfway there. And guess what? What about your OS?

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

What is Data Access Governance? 80% of digital organizations will fail because they don’t take a modern approach to data governance. Data access governance is a subset of data governance. “Data access governance” is often associated with strict rules and regulations to keep sensitive data under lock and key.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

We all seem to have a love/hate relationship with passwords. The number of data breaches increases almost daily–and in recent weeks, a leading password manager vendor, an internet hosting provider. The post Passkeys Can Make Passwords a Thing of the Past appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

Password being such a central piece of any authentication-based system, every developer would be involved with it at some point in his or her career. It becomes exceedingly important to make sure these stored passwords can???t KDFs used to generate these random bytes of data are commonly called as password hashing algorithms.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 10, 2022

Security key company and local identity management firm replace passwords with security keys to strengthen cybersecurity defenses. The post As important as bulletproof vests: Yubico sends 20,000 keys to Ukrainian government and energy agencies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So far 2022 confirms that passwords are not dead yet. Think about it, internal apps that you do not want to integrate with third-party identity providers, government services, legacy applications, Neither will they be anytime soon.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 1, 2024

The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

The post 2024 Digital Resolutions: Use Stronger Passwords appeared first on Security Boulevard. Nearly a quarter of participants highlighted cybersecurity as a priority for 2024, according to a study conducted by Kaspersky on New Year's digital resolutions.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’. Have I Been Pwned?’

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

UK Finance, a banking trade governing body in Britain discovered in its research that the first two quarters of the year 2021 witnessed £350 million cyber fraud committed because of the usage of an insecure password by online banking customers and warned that it could become a national security threat within no time.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

"Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user’s devices. Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing resistant. The FIDO Alliance asserts that passkeys are a replacement for passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2023

The post Another Password Manager Leak Bug: But KeePass Denies CVE appeared first on Security Boulevard. Two researchers report vulnerability in KeePass. But lead developer Dominik Reichl says it’s not a problem—and refuses to fix the flaw.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 2, 2021

The NSA, FBI, and CISA, in cooperation with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), have issued a report that describes in detail why, and how, they think that a Russian military unit is behind large-scale brute-force attacks on the cloud-IT resources of government and private sector companies around the world. The method.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

government's company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get around the security of devices running iOS 11. There's also a credible rumor that Cellebrite's mechanisms only defeat the mechanism that limits the number of password attempts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. ” reported CBA.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT. State and local government competitive bidding portals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And smart devices are big news— a study commissioned by the UK government in 2020 revealed that almost half (49 percent) of UK residents purchased at least one smart device since the pandemic started. The BBC has highlighted three new rules under this bill: Easy-to-guess default passwords preloaded on devices are banned.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

US DoD Server Had no Password — 3TB of Sensitive Data Leaked appeared first on Security Boulevard. Sensitive military data found on unprotected Microsoft Azure server. Defense Department email store left insecure for at least 11 days. The post Surprise!

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