Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Password Protection & Authentication. Passwords are the baseline of cybersecurity. Luckily, applying AI into the mix can make passwords more secure. Before, a password was a word or phrase. One thing better than having an incredibly good password is to have a lot of them. Multi-Factor Authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

In this instance, hackers are suspected to have exploited simple cybersecurity loopholes, including the fact that the software shipped with easy-to-guess default passwords. Unitronics systems are exposed to the Internet and a single intrusion caused a ripple effect felt across organizations in multiple states.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. This can be risky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2023

The file contained PostgreSQL and Redis databases credentials, including host, port, username, and password. Given that the databases are connected to the internet, it makes it easier for attackers to access them. Among the leaked data, researchers found Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bucket credentials – key ID and secret.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

. “Interestingly, due to a simple mistake in their attack chain, the attackers behind the phishing campaign exposed the credentials they had stolen to the public Internet, across dozens of drop-zone servers used by the attackers. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

On April 10, Sisense Chief Information Security Officer Sangram Dash told customers the company had been made aware of reports that “certain Sisense company information may have been made available on what we have been advised is a restricted access server (not generally available on the internet.)”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2023

Researchers from the University of Catania (Italy) and the University of London (UK) have discovered four vulnerabilities impacting the TP-Link Tapo L530E smart bulb and the mobile app TP-Link’s Tapo app, which could allow attackers to steal the users’ WiFi password. The vulnerability received a CVSS score of 8.8.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 12, 2024

The security updates are available in iOS 17.4 , iPadOS 17.4 , and iOS 16.7.6. Security Update addresses dozens of security issues. Microsoft says attackers could connect to OMI instances over the Internet without authentication, and then send specially crafted data packets to gain remote code execution on the host device.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

They aim to exploit modular, internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS), targeting software components like human machine interfaces (HMIs). The threat actors were observed using methods such as exploiting virtual network computing (VNC) remote access software and default passwords. ” concludes the advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. 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.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

IP addresses are used to ensure that internet communications are sent and received by the intended device. Source: Cybernews The exposed phone numbers can be exploited for spam, malware and spyware attacks, SIM swapping, and the discovery of user accounts on platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, and others.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance.

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The Hacker News

MAY 5, 2022

An ElasticSearch server instance that was left open on the Internet without a password contained sensitive financial information about loans from Indian and African financial services. Those records included personal information like name,

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

By May 24, 2024 we identified a small number of login attempts using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method,” the company said. “We have recently witnessed compromised VPN solutions, including various cyber security vendors. ” reads an update to the initial advisory.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

I wrote an article recently on how to secure your home network in three different tiers of protection. In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. These are the diet and exercise of the computer safety world.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 24, 2021

This post is an attempt to create an easy-to-use security model for the average internet user. Basically, how secure is someone’s current behavior with respect to passwords and authentication, and how can they improve? People like moving up rankings, so let’s use that! How to use this model.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

On October 2, KrebsOnSecurity reported that twice in the preceding ten days, an unknown entity that had inside access to the Trickbot botnet sent all infected systems a command telling them to disconnect themselves from the Internet servers the Trickbot overlords used to control compromised Microsoft Windows computers. The Post said U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link has addressed a critical vulnerability impacting some TP-Link Archer routers that could allow attackers to login without passwords. “In such an event, the victim could lose access to the console and even a shell, and thereby would not be able to re-establish a new password.” ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Tinyproxy service potentially impacted 50,000 Internet-Exposing hosts. The vulnerability impacts over 90,000 hosts that expose a Tinyproxy service on the internet. and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. The issue is tracked as CVE-2023-49606 and received a CVSS score of 9.8.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

GitLab has recently released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities impacting both the Community and Enterprise Edition. The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score 10), is an account takeover via Password Reset. The flaw can be exploited to hijack an account without any interaction. “An

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Consider that most of us spend more time navigating the Internet on our laptops and smartphones than we do behind the wheel of a car. But the larger point is that Xbash is just one of dozens of malware families circulating far and wide across the Internet. Use a password manager. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Xfinity offers a variety of services, including cable television, internet, telephone, and home security. It is a major provider of broadband internet and cable TV services in the United States. “On November 16, 2023, it was determined that information was likely acquired.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” The use of default passwords represents a serious problem also for the Chinese vendor.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2022

The Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. It’s an attempt by the world’s governments to come together and create a set of international norms and standards for a reliable, trustworthy, safe, and secure Internet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

“The attack can be performed without user interaction if the management interface of the device has been configured to be internet facing. An attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying carefully crafted username and/or password as base64 encoded strings inside the fields aa and ab of the login page.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Background This problem really came to a head when the internet rapidly grew from a government project to a major medium for electronic commercial transactions. Thanks to the application of advanced math and science, Public Key Cryptography was used to develop a means of securing ecommerce over the internet.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

In this week’s episode, #145 Veracode CTO Chris Wysopal joins us to talk about the early days of the information security industry with L0pht and securing software supply chains. Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

World-in-HD (WiHD), a French private video torrent community, left an open instance exposing the emails and passwords of all of its users and administrators. However, the Cybernews team discovered a publicly exposed Elasticsearch cluster on WiHD that lacked any password protection. What data was exposed?

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. Opportunistic employees in sensitive positions can abuse network privileges to obtain sensitive information, use weak passwords, or accidentally respond to phishing.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Access is set up using a certificate or a login/password pair, and in rare cases multi-factor authentication is added.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers found multiple backdoors in popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. Researchers from RedTeam Pentesting discovered multiple backdoors in a popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. 7}' 1432d89. 7}' 92fcdd9.

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Webroot

APRIL 3, 2024

Simply put, it’s the practice of ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to your sensitive information and online accounts. This encompasses everything from protecting your passwords to being vigilant against phishing scams and online fraud. But why dedicate an entire day to this?

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Worse, the Internet, the rise of smartphones, and the culture of social media allow us to access these things from anywhere. Fortunately, there are options available to parents when it comes to controlling YouTube and Internet access. Don’t share passwords. Shockingly, 1 in 5 U.S. As a parent, that’s terrifying.

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