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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Krebs on Security

This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 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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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

Dubner said all customers are required to use multi-factor authentication, and that everyone applying for access to its services undergoes a rigorous vetting process. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In response to ongoing security threats and privacy violations, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rulethe first substantial revision since 2013. Encryption of ePHI : Protecting electronic health information, even if its intercepted.

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Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

Krebs on Security

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. Caturegli said many organizations no doubt viewed a domain ending in.ad He then learned the.ad

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Policy vs Technology

Schneier on Security

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. He didn't become a senator until 2013.) Authentication risks surrounding someone's intimate partner is a good example.). They still are.

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Microsoft recommends Exchange admins to disable the SMBv1 protocol

Security Affairs

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism.