Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else. Lastly, use two-factor authentication (2FA) to add a layer of protection to your accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. Social Responsibility: VPN providers will promote VPN technology to support access to the global Internet and freedom of expression.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Dashlane disadvantages: authentication and affordability.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Summary: The company was attacked in 2012, when usernames and passwords were posted to a Russian hacker forum.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2019

17 vulnerabilities impacting Windows and Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers were rated as “critical” The first zero-day addressed by Microsoft is tracked as CVE-2019-0808. Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. ” reads the security advisory.

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Google Security

JUNE 27, 2024

Upcoming change in Chrome 127 and higher: TLS server authentication certificates validating to the following Entrust roots whose earliest Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) is dated after October 31, 2024, will no longer be trusted by default. for authorized use only,O=Entrust, Inc.,C=US for authorized use only,O=Entrust, Inc.,C=US

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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. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 23, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding two actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer and Twilio Authy, a popular two-factor authentication app.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

When either on-premise or cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers process Kerberos authentication requests, the leak causes the LSASS process to stop responding and the domain controller will unexpectedly restart. Current ShadowServer statistics show over 300,000 potentially vulnerable servers with open connections to the internet.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With this release, many high security and low friction authentication methods were made available. It is behind the widescale growth of ecommerce on the internet. WebAuthn allows servers to register and authenticate users using Public Key Cryptography. In November 2022, we announced the general availability of Duo Passwordless.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Fake Louis Vuitton store on Instagram As new and more secure, authentication technologies appear, scammers find ways to evade these, too. The phishing page in the screenshot below, mimicking the Shopify sign-in form, implements a scenario for when the victim uses a passkey as the authentication method.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Summary: The company was attacked in 2012, when usernames and passwords were posted to a Russian hacker forum.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Figure 4: Bot’s registration on the C2.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The initial vulnerability that we discovered in October 2012 was related to the “Internet Key Exchange and Authenticated Internet Protocol Keying Modules”. Those modules are used for authentication and key exchange in Internet Protocol security. dicPath = os.environ[sysPath].split(";")

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NopSec

APRIL 30, 2023

Researchers determined that authenticated threat actors could leverage the AutoDiscovery or OWA Exchange endpoints to trigger the deserialization sink. Exploitation is only possible if an attacker can reach port eighty (80) and the PowerShell entry point must use Kerberos for authentication. The MSMQ service operates on TCP port 1801.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment routes like endpoints , agentless, web, proxy chaining, and unified authentication. A part of the vendor’s Autonomous Security Engine (ASE) solution, Censornet Cloud Access Security Broker comes integrated with adaptive multi-factor authentication and email and web security. . Recognition for Broadcom. Censornet.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed last week how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing this challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things tech.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Meaning, authentication bypasses weren’t enough. After decoding the files , most of the API endpoints and the web interface were not accessible without authentication. The daemon takes XML data, parses the request and carries out the action without any authentication, except making sure the request came from 127.0.0.1.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

The following tools provide strong options to support vulnerability scanning and other capabilities and also offer options specifically for service providers: Deployment Options Cloud-based On-Prem Appliance Service Option Carson & SAINT Yes Linux or Windows Yes Yes RapidFire VulScan Hyper-V or VMware Virtual Appliance Hyper-V or VMware Virtual (..)

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NopSec

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Though its CVSS score is relatively low, Heartbleed has definitely been one of the most severe security events the Internet has never seen. More than a half-million servers were found exposed to this vulnerability, which accounts for 30 – 70% of the Internet. The Technical Risk Scores, however, help to differentiate the risks.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As computer and internet use exploded over the past forty years, the number of passwords each of us must remember has climbed precipitously. In 2012, a group of researchers gave us a big clue about how small our capacity for remembering passwords is by looking at how often users forgot theirs, or got them mixed up.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In particular, the system.img file serves as the authentic payload archive used for initial Windows system infections. In contrast, the second thread periodically attempts to select a random internet IP address, with the following exclusions: Bogon networks like 0.0.0.0/8, ssh , compiles a list of known hosts from $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, if your organization is using this software, you probably should have followed the disclosure last month, lest your “/etc/passwd” files are now known to the whole internet. Beyond that, there are two interesting points you can ponder while swirling your eggnog in its glass (side-rant on the disgustingness of eggnog redacted).

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

The MapUrlToZone function is used to determine if the trust zone of a provided URL is local, intranet, or Internet. A secondary mitigating factor is that many privileged accounts are members of the protected users security group, which has the benefit of disabling NTLM authentication for all member accounts.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2025

Even in organisations that have embraced Entra ID, we have Hybrid Joined environments which often mix federated authentication in with cloud management. Authentication Methods ADFS has a concept of extranet and intranet. Device Authentication requires DRS to be enabled, and it isnt enabled by default unfortunately for us attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

For control access, authorization grants users least privilege while the Azure Active Directory manages authentication at the database level. As most databases use web servers to connect to the internet, an organization’s data is inherently vulnerable to web-based attacks. Also Read: Lack of Monitoring Weakens Database Security.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This basically results in authentication bypass. This is similar in severity to the Heartbleed vulnerability that impacted OpenSSL from 2012 to 2014, however Citrix NetScaler deployments will (obviously) be far less prevalent than OpenSSL servers. I love this exploit chain. It’s easy to understand and easy to exploit. before 5.18.3

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

TLS servers may be affected if they are using client authentication (which is a less common configuration) and a malicious client attempts to connect to it.” The last time we saw a bug of this scope was Heartbleed , the infamous attack on OpenSSL that lay undetected for two years (originating in 2012 and remaining unknown until 2014).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

They're using it for media systems multimedia take data from the internet, like Spotify or things like that, and display and display information even newer. Vamosi: Up until recently cars didn't connect directly to the internet. Now, cars have the ability to connect directly to the internet and download apps.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

USinfoSearch’s statement did not address any questions put to the company, such as whether it requires multi-factor authentication for customer accounts, or whether my report had actually come from USinfoSearch’s systems. After much badgering, on Nov. “I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.”

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. And if you could initiate a heartbeat before authentication was complete on the site, you could smash and grab the encrypted information before anyone even knew who you were. The internet, has some source sites.

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