eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems.

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Webroot

MAY 28, 2025

Strengthen your password security Are you still using passwords like your dogs name and 123? Chances are their Roblox passwords arent as tough to hack as they should be. If theres one weak link in most peoples security, its their passwords. Here are some tips to keep all your familys passwords secure.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

These include: Home personal networks, wired and wireless, including network reconnaissance and device inventorying. Devices owned by other companies that may be using the same network, wired or wireless, due to other family members working from home. SMishing is social engineering in the form of SMS text messages.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Other features include: Data encryption Compliance management capabilities Server monitoring and alerting Data import and export John the Ripper This free password-cracking tool supports 15 operating systems, including 11 from the Unix family, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The attackers used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy test tenant account, gaining access to corporate email accounts of senior leadership and cybersecurity teams. Role of Social Engineering Social engineering has emerged as the predominant attack vector, accounting for 41% of initial breach incidents.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. He also shares passwords with his friends, leading to the first computer “troll.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel like a password manager. The longer and more complex the encrypted message is, the longer it’ll take to decrypt.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

Password Security The password is the primary authentication mechanism still used in environments today to verify identity. Generally, a username must be specified that is assigned by the company, then the password is a user supplied string of letters, numbers, and other characters that allow successful authentication.

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 21, 2019

For instance, if you want to be able to access every wireless tool, simply install the kali-tools-wireless metapackage. This will obtain all wireless tools in one download. A metapackage is a package that does not contain any tools itself, but rather is a dependency list of normal packages (or other metapackages).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack in which bad actors pose as a trustworthy entity via phone, email, or text message in order to steal personal information from the recipient. Attackers may try to get their victims to reveal their date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or account passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 4, 2023

wlan0 eth0 Free-Wifi This command will use wlan0 which is the wireless interface for creating the access point, and the second interface eth0 will be used to give internet access to the users when they have submitted the login credentials. The internet interface can be wired or wireless, but obviously, the AP interface needs to be wireless.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Training must be more frequent and go beyond covering phishing and passwords. In the past 5-10 years, privacy and information security training vendors have moved to narrowing focus to largely phishing awareness and password security. Phishing and passwords are certainly important and should be covered with effective training.

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NopSec

JULY 18, 2017

CSC15 – Wireless Access Control How Unified VRM Helps: Wireless module could perform: Wireless network site survey Rogue access point detection WEP and WPA2 key cracking, including dictionary attacks and bruteforcing Infrastructure vulnerabilities that are common in the internal and wireless module could be identified via asset tagging.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 5, 2025

Imagine you're logging on to a website like this: And, because you want to protect your account from being logged into by someone else who may obtain your username and password, you've turned on two-factor authentication (2FA). A quick side note: as you'll read in this post, passkeys do not necessarily replace passwords.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Most cyber attacks are carried out using a combination of social engineering, phishing emails, and vulnerabilities — Java, Adobe Flash and Acrobat, Firefox and Chrome plugins, 0-day client-side / browser vulnerabilities. They are usually the only way to determine whether the host has been compromised.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Programmatically brute-force PIN codes, passwords, and even endpoint device block lists with intelligent success confirmation using Brute-Force attacks. Wireless Communication : Supports protocols like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it versatile for various attacks. The Flash Drive features a hidden, programmable squeeze-to-press button.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. But in a written statement, T-Mobile said this type of activity affects the entire wireless industry. KrebsOnSecurity shared a large amount of data gathered for this story with T-Mobile. A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Instead of arguing about MFA strength, VPN vendor, or nation-state treat actors, let’s finish our conversation about using dedicated administrator accounts and unique passwords. Kern Smith , VP Sales Engineering, Americas, Zimperium. As we shift to hybrid workloads, identity is becoming more complex.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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SecureList

JANUARY 29, 2025

Attackers also do not ignore technical progress; their use of AI at various stages of the killchain (for malicious tools development and social engineering, such as text generation for phishing emails ) reduces costs, thereby accelerating the development of cyberthreats. This tendency will certainly evolve in 2025.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2024

env) International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime The “Mad Liberator” ransomware group leverages social-engineering moves to watch out for New U.N. million to $459.8

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