Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

This breach has been flagged as "sensitive" which means it is not publicly searchable , rather you must demonstrate you control the email address being searched before the results are shown. Cybercriminals then use this data for purposes ranging from identity theft to phishing attacks to credential stuffing.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 27, 2021 multiple cybersecurity media outlets began reporting on LastPass users who believed their master passwords had been stolen. LastPass is a “password manager” with both a web-based interface and mobile app that can help you generate, store, and access all of the ways you secure your favorite services.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2022

With two high-profile breaches this year, Okta, a leader in identity and access management (IAM) , made the kind of headlines that security vendors would rather avoid. The tech world defines breaches as unintended releases of information, and usually the implication is that a technology failure somewhere caused the breach.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2023

The biggest takeaway is: MFA can prevent account takeovers where credentials are compromised. Different forms of MFA exist, but in most cases enabling MFA is better than not enabling MFA - especially on important/crucial accounts. From a security perspective, if the question is "Should I enable MFA?" What is MFA?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

The issues stem from internal lapses or deficiencies and may not always include external threats. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4 For Akamai, a single alert is an attack, and a group of attacks could be called a campaign. A: You’re right.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Active Directory Protection. The time saved will vary from organization to organization depending upon the number of users and the complexity of the IT environment. Lepide’s Data Security Platform (DSP) focuses on user rights and permission audits, real-time monitoring, alerts, and reports. Active Directory Auditing.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

What do wildfires and credential stuffing have in common? Meanwhile, all year long and continuing through the fall, opportunistic cybercriminals have launched wave after wave of automated credential stuffing campaigns. It behooves us all to pay much closer attention to credential stuffing.

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