Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

“This is the most significant technological and financial operation ever led by the Department of Justice against a botnet,” said Martin Estrada , the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, at a press conference this morning in Los Angeles. ” The DOJ said it also recovered more than 6.5

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Hackers don’t need to hack in, they just log in.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2021

One financial startup that’s targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to hand over the payroll account username and password given to them by their employer, plus a regular payment for each month afterwards in which those credentials still work. This ad, from workplaceunited[.]com, Click to enlarge.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. For organizations that have made that jump, sticking with a simple username and password to protect a globally accessible email server is far from good enough.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. “2FA has proven to be a powerful tool in securing communications channels.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. 6 characters. for my *online banking*.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2021

Apple Inc, the iPhone maker from America has decided to wage a war against the use of passwords by releasing a new tech for security authentication. Dubbed as PassKeys, the new tech will eliminate the need for users to remember passwords for online service usage. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The FBI recommends using longer passwords composed of multiple words into a long string of at least 15 characters instead of short passwords including special characters. Recent guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) highlights that the password length is much more important than password complexity.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

DEV-0343: Iran-linked threat actors are targeting US and Israeli defense technology companies leveraging password spraying attacks. Threat actors are launching extensive password spraying attacks aimed at the target organizations, the malicious campaign was first spotted in July 2021.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. If you’re making technology the bulwark of your protection from the user, then it’s always going to fail.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 17, 2020

CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. The hacking tools and other data were developed by the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), often referred to as the hacking arm of the CIA. .

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SecureList

AUGUST 14, 2023

Another tactic, popular with scammers big and small, phishers included, is hacking websites and placing malicious content on those, rather than registering new domains. Besides tucking a phishing page inside the website they hack, scammers can steal all of the data on the server and completely disrupt the site’s operation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Customers of Tyler Technologies are reporting finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools on their infrastructure. Tyler Technologies, Inc. ” According to Tyler Technologies, the cloud infrastructure was not impacted and data of its customers were not affected. ” continues the statement.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

To prove it, researchers from SafeBreach purchased a €600 license from the anti-malware firm to collect over 1,000,000 usernames and passwords stored on the cloud based database of the said company. The post Details on VirusTotal Hacking appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions. In this case, it could take attackers as long as 22 years to crack a very strong admin password.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) warns of a rise in password spray attacks targeting valuable cloud accounts. The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) observed a worrisome rise in password spray attacks targeting privileged cloud accounts. ” states Microsoft DART’s report. .”

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Easy WP SMTP WordPress plugin to reset passwords for admin accounts. According to the team at Ninja Technologies Network (NinTechNet), WP SMTP 1.4.2 ” reads a blog post published by Ninja Technologies Network (NinTechNet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Nobody likes passwords. So for many IT teams, the news that tech giants are steadily embracing passkey technology is exciting. And is it realistic to consider passkeys – and the passwordless solutions they support – as a valid alternative for traditional password security? But how effective are passkeys really?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

German Intelligence Agency BfV that offers cyber threat information from time to time has warned all the companies operating in its region about a possible cyber attack carried out by APT27, the China-based hacking group also known with other names such as Iron Tiger, Bronze Union, Emissary Panda, Lucky Mouse and Masking Panda.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was hacked this week. We will almost certainly learn about security lapses at Twitter that enabled the hack, possibly including a SIM-swapping attack that targeted an employee's cellular service provider, or maybe even a bribed insider. Maybe this hack will serve as a wake-up call. The FBI is investigating.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

For all the discussion around the sophisticated technology, strategies, and tactics hackers use to infiltrate networks, sometimes the simplest attack method can do the most damage. The recent Unitronics hack , in which attackers took control over a Pennsylvania water authority and other entities, is a good example.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fast-forward a decade from now and imagine teaching emerging cybersecurity professionals about an obsolete thing called a password. Password problems because of the human factor. Manual and annoying for a long time, passwords were a key technology, beginning in the early digital age, to protect servers, accounts, and eventually email.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 has been hacked by a hacking group identifying themselves as “Korean Hackers” and “Team Johnwick”that asked for a “donation” to provide information on the vulnerabilities they have exploited in the attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, E27). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

A hacker has leaked the details of 15 million users registered on Tokopedia , an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce, it currently operates Indonesia’s largest online store. SecurityAffairs – Tokopedia, hacking).

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Identity IQ

MAY 2, 2023

What are the Benefits of a Password Manager? IdentityIQ Passwords are essential when keeping your information safe on your devices. But unfortunately, many people use weak or the same password, making it easy for hackers to crack them. Research shows that 52% of people reuse passwords for multiple accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Almost as soon as it was implemented, researchers began to swap passwords to share their access windows.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Consider that some 80 percent of hacking-related breaches occur because of weak or reused passwords, and that over 90 percent of consumers continue to re-use their intrinsically weak passwords. Underscoring this trend, Uber was recently hacked — through its authentication system. Invisible security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

However, this technological advancement aimed at making our lives more convenient—not to mention very cool and futuristic!—has the UK’s leading consumer awareness and review site, say that smart devices could be exposed to over 12,000 hacking and unknown scanning attacks in a single week. Firms that don’t comply will face huge fines.

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