Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. How prevalent is 2FA authentication?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2021

I had a lively discussion about this with Rohyt Belani, co-founder and CEO of Cofense, which started out as PhishMe in 2011. One night very recently, a couple of night-shift employees at a Norwegian oil and gas company received an official-looking email notifying them that their single sign-on passwords were about to expire.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

CVE-2021-3156 Sudo vulnerability has allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without authentication. The Sudo CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability, dubbed Baron Samedit, could have been exploited by any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication (i.e.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2022

The reputation is well-deserved when you consider that we (the cybersecurity team) tell users to create a unique password for each account to increase security. According to Gartner, 20 – 50% of help desk calls are for password reset – which is an expensive burden for any help desk.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The typical username and password for Wi-Fi routers is “admin” for both, but you may need to search online or contact your ISP if that doesn’t work. And while you’re in there, update that password to something a little less hackable, possibly saving the new one in a password manager.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . The hackers initially breached into the victim’s secondary email inbox associated with their Microsoft account, then used them to reset the password.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. But naturally, at Carbonite + Webroot, we just wonder how they’ll be used and abused by cybercriminals or if they can be irrevocably lost like the password to a crypto wallet. An often used and helpful analogy is to certificates of authenticity (COA) like those used in the art world.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017. “Operation Wocao (?? .

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

Provide a limit on password guess attempts for remote desktops. You can also combine remote services with multifactor authentication. The reason for this is that it took this long to verify the breach had actually taken place. That isn’t all, however. Strengthen remote access. Avoid strange attachments.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Privacy and Passwords: Two-step verification is done by default, but multi-factor authentication (MFA) is recommended. Password security Ring requires two-step verification (2SV) by default, which adds an extra layer of security by requiring a second form of identification in addition to your password. Who is Ring?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2023

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Control Access Ensuring password security is one of the easiest steps you can take to protect your data, devices, and accounts. Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when possible is also recommended.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The malware utilizes cloud resources for its C2 (command and control) servers, which it accesses via APIs using authentication tokens. These documents are in fact password-protected ZIP or other archives. CloudSorcerer also employs GitHub as its initial C2 server.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Several facilities have faced the wrath of ransomware attacks, from the South Houston wastewater treatment plant in 2011 to a Pennsylvania water system in May 2021. Moreover, it stresses the importance of multifactor authentication and regular updates to patch known vulnerabilities. The bottom line is the threat is not hypothetical.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

Some easily accessible breaches are over a decade old and hold passwords which are no longer in use, were invalid at time of capture, or have been incorrectly cross referenced to accounts that the users have no knowledge of. A grand day out We really enjoyed working with Alexis.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. There’s going to be quite a bit of concern for parents and teachers alike, with sensitive data being thrown into the mix.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Certificate authentication plays a major role in securing online resources , and most organizations utilize certificates to secure communication between both hosted resources and those that are accessed. It is a more secure way of authenticating users compared to the legacy username and password mechanism.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Together FTK’s capabilities include a wizard-driven approach to detection, charts crafted to visualize data, password recovery for up to 100 apps, and support for pre-and post-refinement. Noticing that digital forensic tools used by law enforcement were insufficient, Canadian police officer Jad Saliba founded Magnet Forensics in 2011.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. In 2011, McAfee added to their database security lineup with the acquisition of Sentrigo, which approached database security with an emphasis on privileged user activity and access. Microsoft Azure.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

Clear Text authentication still exists in 2023 Although not directly related to malware infection, we did discover a few other interesting findings during our threat hunt, including numerous examples of clear text traffic disclosing email credentials or authentication session cookies for variety of applications.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Accel Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Sequoia Capital.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO. When ChronoPay’s internal emails were leaked in 2010, the username and password for its MegaPlan subscription were still working and valid.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fast-forward a decade from now and imagine teaching emerging cybersecurity professionals about an obsolete thing called a password. Password problems because of the human factor. Manual and annoying for a long time, passwords were a key technology, beginning in the early digital age, to protect servers, accounts, and eventually email.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The vulnerability traces back to code released in 2011, which is a significant amount of time for a hashing algorithm to find its way into hundreds if not thousands of projects. I can still recall dumping clear-text passwords from “yahoo.com” (like I said, it was 2014). November Preview: Critical Vulnerability in OpenSSL 3.0.x

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2024

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. Since their initial observation in January 2023, these tools have been continuously updated to handle multi-factor authentication, device PINs, and recovery codes for all three platforms.

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