Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed that virtually all of the hacked systems for rent at AWM Proxy had been compromised by TDSS (a.k.a An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba. Image: Google.com.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

Qualys experts discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. Security experts from Qualys discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. openssh-7.8p1/gss-genr.c

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

That document indicates the Liberty Reserve account claimed by MrMurza/AccessApproved — U1018928 — was assigned in 2011 to a “ Vadim Panov ” who used the email address lesstroy@mgn.ru. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” relied on the passwords asus666 and 01091987h.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember. And if you're not already putting all your passwords in 1Password, go and grab a free trial and give it a go.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2019

So "Plan A" was to publish Pwned Passwords V5 on Tuesday but a last-minute check showed control characters had snuck in due to the quality (or lack thereof) of the source data. The Zhenai breach from 2011 added another 5M records to HIBP (I'm still working through a ridiculously long backlog of breaches.)

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Last week, Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075 , in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z The password that is known only to the attacker will be revealed only when the victim pays a ransom in 0.01 The company became a member of Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance in 2011. BTC for each file.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2021

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the penalty was pronounced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as Pearson made false and misleading statements on the 2018 data breach that witnessed millions of student usernames and passwords stolen along with admin level login credentials of over 13,000 school and university pupils.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

26, 2011 and February. The airline pointed out that neither CVV/CVC numbers associated with the credit cards nor passwords were impacted. ” The company recommends passengers to change their passwords to prevent unauthorized access to their accounts and ensure their data security.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. Bilogorskiy: Correct, because people share passwords. And we’ve talked about how important it is not to on passwords alone. It was insane.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We spent searching holes in Italian universities (and not only, we remember that dozens of universities were hacked in 2011), to try to show you that security in the academic environment must be taken seriously since the university is the den of the excellent minds of our future. Below the translation of message published by the group.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

This action violated a 2011 FTC order that prohibited the social media site from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices. This information would be used to help reset passwords or unlock accounts, as well as enabling two-factor authentication (2FA). Along with violating the 2011 FTC order, Twitter also violated the EU-U.S.

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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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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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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. A 22 percent adoption rate is meager, especially in the face of the multiple online threats that enterprises face daily.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

They are just simple device connectors that sit between the charging device and the public charging station and protect the device owner from an intruder who can otherwise copy sensitive files, including texts, contacts, files, passwords, photos, and videos. USB Condom works by blocking connections to all the pins except the charging pin.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

“But because the server wasn’t protected with a password, anyone could find and access the database.” Facebook disabled the API that shares users’ mobile phone and address details with developers back in 2011. -based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., ” states Techcrunch.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to global market data provider IHS Markit, Hikvision has 38% of the global market share, and it has been the market leader since 2011. No username or password is needed, nor are any actions needed from the camera owner. The company was founded on November 30, 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China. The vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

the attacker does not need to know the user’s password). The vulnerability was introduced in July 2011 ( commit 8255ed69 ), and affects all versions from 1.8.2 The privilege escalation issue is a heap-based buffer overflow that was discovered by security researchers from Qualys. to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. But it was 2011. Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack. New Emotet variant uses connected devices as proxy C2 servers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2023

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., ” reads the report published by Volexity.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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 ransomware copies files into password-protected WinRAR archives, it uses a renamed freeware version of the legitimate file utility WinRAR.

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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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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2022

Witness 419 scammers misusing Google calendar invites in 2011 , or even using Yahoo! As Bleeping Computer notes, a password manager with login functionality will help as the mismatch in URLs means login details will stay safely tucked away from harm’s reach. These tactics have been around for many years. Calendar to spam in 2009.

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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. A password manager is an effective way to keep track of many complex passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

By 2011 or so, it was clear the BYOD trend was unstoppable, and companies began to impose much tighter security constraints. MDMs gave companies the ability to micromanage company-issued devices, adding password protection and remote wiping capabilities.

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