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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Krebs on Security

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.

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Now buy Raspberry Pi systems only with a 2-factor authentication

CyberSecurity Insiders

As bots are buying all the Raspberry Pi systems available in the market, Adafruit, an online retailer of Raspberry Pi single-board computers, has implemented a 2-factor authentication for all the purchases made for the new hardware from this Monday. And if the users do not change such credentials, then they can be hacked at any moment.

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620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web

Security Affairs

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. “I need the money. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” account on Carder[.]su

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Expert released DOS Exploit PoC for Critical Windows RDP Gateway flaws

Security Affairs

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. ” reads the advisories published by Microsoft.

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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

Security Affairs

Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.