The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Botnet turnaround CyCognito’s employment of a bot network is what struck me most after I sat down with the team and learned in more detail what they’re up to. A bot is a computing nodule that strictly obeys instructions from a command and control server. A criminal botnet is a network of bots under control of an individual attacker.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The Back Story When you buy an API key on Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), Stripe handles all the payment magic. I love Stripe, it's such an awesome service that abstracts away so much pain and it's dead simple to integrate via their various APIs. Did I change anything? Did they change something?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some big changes afoot for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), namely the introduction of annual billing and new rate limits. Today, it's finally here! With new limits, it's easier to talk about "requests per minute" or RPM so that's the nomenclature we're sticking with now.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

At its core, a prompt injection in the context of AI chatbots is the act of feeding the model crafted or malicious input to elicit undesired responses or behaviours. Think of it as a digital form of trickery where the attacker aims to manipulate the AI’s output. Image source: Greshake et al.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The harder your password is to remember (or guess), the harder it is to for a bot to crack. Check out the website Have I Been Pwned to see if your password is on the list of known breaches. Bots are smart! Stay away from using names (like the name of your pets), birthdates, 12345 or “password” (LOL?). Use Unique Passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Those include using bot-detection software and multi-factor authentication , preventing customers from reusing passwords that have previously been compromised, monitoring customer and account activity and leveraging threat intelligence. Password Reuse. Also read: Best Password Managers & Tools for 2022.

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

Have I Been Pwned. Since the Black Hat NOC uses Slack for messaging, we decided to create a Slack bot that NOC staff could use to interact with the Meraki infrastructure as well as Palo Alto Panorama using the SecureX Orchestration remote appliance. Recorded Future threat intelligence. alphaMountain.ai threat intelligence.

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