CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

World Password Day is celebrated in May every year and is being done since 2013 as a group of Cybersecurity Professionals declared the first Thursday of May every year as the day to celebrate as the security day of our online lives. But Microsoft Authenticator app doesn’t offer such troubles. percent of accounts from being compromised.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. I highlighted 3 really important attributes at the time of launch: There is no authentication. In the end, the path forward was clear - the API would need to be authenticated. There is no rate limiting.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2023

Once Outlook receives this message it initiates a NTLM authentication with this SMB share server. The attacker can then use this connection's NTLM negotiation message and relay this authentication against other systems that support NTLM authentication. This can be used to protect high value domain admin accounts.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The scale of this breach, if confirmed, would rival or exceed other notorious data breaches in history, such as the 2013 Yahoo breach that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts. Use complex, unique passwords for all accounts and consider using a password manager. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korea, and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2023

The Outlook vulnerability ( CVE-2023-23397 ) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from 2013 to the newest. Known as an NTLM relay attack, it allows an attacker to get someone’s NTLM hash [Windows account password] and use it in an attack commonly referred to as “ Pass The Hash.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide. How do we get there?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. bank accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korean, and Europe. .” ” Microsoft concludes.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. This is extremely similar to CVE-2013–3630, just using a different variable.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Related: Credential stuffing fuels account takeovers. Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? Breaches to multiple accounts that share the same or similar passwords. Use multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account. By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

Forget SMS 2FA authentication – Twitter and others are making it less attractive by either charging for it or phasing it out altogether. Dunn Mention Twitter and two factor authentication (2FA) in the same breath right now and security watchers will immediately think about a puzzling announcement the company made less than two months ago.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The attackers used CVE-2021-26857 to run code of their choice under the “system” account on a targeted Exchange server. Microsoft credited researchers at Reston, Va. based Volexity for reporting the attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. ” read the post published by ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

” Demirkapi found the Experian API could be accessed directly without any sort of authentication, and that entering all zeros in the “date of birth” field let him then pull a person’s credit score. “Too many consumer finance company accounts,” the API concluded about my friend’s score.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The Universal Prompt is Duo's next-generation authentication interface that delivers a better experience for every user. Simplify Secure Access – Modernizing security can be disruptive for users, but Universal Prompt makes it painless with a smooth authentication experience, intuitive web-based design, and several self-service options.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. store ACCOUNTS-MARKET.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Elsewhere, leaks in which passwords may feature prominently can run the full range of “secure password” to “plaintext data and viewable by anyone” When passwords are exposed, it potentially provides inroads into multiple accounts owned by the victim. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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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. Ring started in 2013, offering video doorbells that let you see and talk to visitors from your phone. While 2SV is a valuable security measure, it is less robust than multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Microsoft is already providing passwordless features to Azure Active Directory, and for Google, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become mandatory. The Challenges of New Authentication Technologies.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x x firmware are past temporary mitigations. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

It is a powerful tool that automates the management of user accounts and provides precise control over their access rights. By connecting user permissions with digital identities, organizations can streamline authentication and authorization processes, ensuring secure access to sensitive information.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

The assessment takes into account governance, security, and identity management challenges. This may include: Manage identities Offboarding accounts Checking administrative privileges Data governance involves quality assurance Review privileged user credentials Reduce the number of accounts with privileged access.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2021

The IT giant reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM , chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to maintain access to victim environments. reads the advisory published by Microsoft. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

“We recently were alerted by a third party regarding a security matter that may have affected the Zendesk Support and Chat products and customer accounts of those products activated prior to November of 2016.” This isn’t the first security breach suffered by Zendesk, the company was already breached in 2013.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. Turn on multifactor authentication for all online accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

” The report states the BMDS did not implement security controls such as multifactor authentication, vulnerability assessment and mitigation, server rack security, protection of classified data stored on removable media, encrypting transmitted technical information, physical facility security such as cameras and sensors. .

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