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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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A bug is about to confuse a lot of computers by turning back time 20 years

Malwarebytes

This would mean Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers using the broken GPSD versions would think it’s March 2002 instead of October 2021. Authentication mechanisms such as Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) and Kerberos also rely heavily on time. The same would happen in cases where authentication relies on cookies.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

Krebs on Security

The breach tracking service HaveIBeenPwned.com and the cybercrime-focused Twitter account vx-underground both concluded the leak is the same information first put up for sale in April 2024 by a prolific cybercriminal who goes by the name “ USDoD.” 1, 2002 (with very few exceptions). “I was not the first one to get it.”

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VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

LiveAuctioneers is one of the world’s largest art, antiques & collectibles online marketplace that was founded in 2002. In response to the incident, the bidding portal has forced a password reset for all users’ accounts, both bidder and auctioneer ones. million users. million LiveAuctioneers users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Exploiting Kerberos for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation

NopSec

Introduction Within most enterprise environments, authentication is handled by a central system known as the domain controller. Active Directory implements two (2) primary protocols for authentication — NTLM and Kerberos. The TGS authenticates the user and sends the ticket and encrypted credentials to the requested service.

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How the FTC’s Amendments to the Safeguards Rule Affects Auto Dealerships

Duo's Security Blog

And one of the few security technologies that is specifically called out by the FTC is multi-factor authentication (MFA). In 1999, Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GBLA) that established the 2002 Safeguards Rule. Multi-factor authentication helps security teams control access to sensitive data.