Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2023

The Outlook vulnerability ( CVE-2023-23397 ) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from 2013 to the newest. ” “The vulnerability effectively lets the attacker authenticate as a trusted individual without having to know the person’s password,” Breen said.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Passwordless authentication. DNS encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods. DNS resolvers were the early building blocks of the internet: they resolved a domain names, such as spamhaus.org, to a specific IP address.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unlike the four zero-days involved in the mass compromise of Exchange Server systems earlier this year, CVE-2021-42321 requires the attacker to be already authenticated to the target’s system. As Exchange zero-days go, CVE-2021-42321 appears somewhat mild by comparison.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

The claims come in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles on behalf of Michael Terpin , who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’? In some cases, thieves executing SIM swaps have already phished or otherwise stolen a target’s bank or email password.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. economy Manipulating identities Threat actors seek out AD for the same reason corporations rely on it: AD is the hub of authentication, supplying Single Sign-On (SSO) access across the entire company network. Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise.

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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. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 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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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Nearly a year later, Exchange Server admins are met with another threat: ProxyNotShell, which in fact is a vulnerability chain comprising two actively exploited flaws: CVE-2022-41040 is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that an authenticated attacker can exploit for privilege escalation.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? Password management software takes some of the brunt out of remembering the many different combinations you use around the internet. Use multi-factor authentication. Use a password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Keeping devices updated with the latest software, using multi-factor authentication, segregating management interfaces of network devices from the internet and changing passwords once or twice in a month is being advised by NCSC to safeguard their IT assets from being attacked by Cyclops Blink malware. billion malware 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. 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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

platform since October 2013. platform, offered data were authentic according to the feds. was the largest centralized platform, which promoted and facilitated the sale of compromised social media and financial accounts, personally identifiable information (PII) and hacked computers on the Internet. ” “Deer.io

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He didn't become a senator until 2013.) Authentication risks surrounding someone's intimate partner is a good example.). Policy making has been around a lot longer than the Internet or computers or any technology. Matt Blaze and Ron Rivest were with me; I don't remember who else. They still are.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this phase of the project that started in 2013 ( SOHOpelessly Broken 1.0 ) , the researchers assessed the security of 13 SOHO router and NAS devices and found a total of 125 new vulnerabilities. . Internet-connected embedded devices are often placed into a broader category referred to as IoT devices.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Austin Berglas, global head of professional services at BlueVoyant, agreed that water facilities’ ICS and SCADA systems are “outdated, unpatched, and available for review on the internet, leaving them incredibly vulnerable to compromise.”. “In This isn’t a ‘should we or shouldn’t we?’

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. 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.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

And in 2013, the FTC won a nearly $5 million judgment against a Kentucky company purporting to offer such services. Mr. Mirza declined to respond to questions, but the exposed database information was removed from the Internet almost immediately after KrebsOnSecurity shared the offending links. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. Everyone must get more proficient at inventorying and proactively managing access and authentication. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014. Talk more soon.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” ” By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Anubhav explained that the passwords are related to Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is known to be affected by a five-year-old vulnerability tracked as CVE-2013-6117. The CVE-2013-6117 was discovered by the security expert Jake Reynolds and affects Dahua DVR 2.608.0000.0

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to “teach companies a lesson about cybersecurity.” The US Department of Energy (DoE). The New York Times.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. ” continues the notice.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 4, 2025

It appears that primarily internet-facing devices are vulnerable (they typically have remote management interfaces exposed to the internet in most cases). Users should keep routers updated , use strong admin passwords (avoid using the default credentials), and avoid exposing the admin login page to the internet.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The first one, later identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger the next vulnerability – CVE-2022-41082. According to the company, the vulnerabilities affect MS Exchange Server 2013, MS Exchange Server 2016 and MS Exchange Server 2019.

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Pen Test Partners

MAY 2, 2024

The LUCKY13 attack was a vulnerability and tied attack identified in February 2013 by AlFardan and Paterson of the Royal Holloway, University of London and given CVE-2013-0169. This can cause a time difference between the various sizes of blocks due to the way that the Message Authentication Code (MAC) is calculated. What is it?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Microsoft has issued some customer guidance as it investigates (yes, more) reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, affecting the 2013, 2016, and 2019 versions of the software. The company says it "is aware of limited targeted attacks using the two vulnerabilities to get into users’ systems."

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

So from inside SolarWinds, these elite hackers were able to distribute authentic, though infectious, Orion updates. The company was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, who saw a need for a smarter approach to aggregating, organizing and maintaining threat intel. FireEye naturally notified SolarWinds. It wasn’t until Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

An actionable way to defend against remote access threats is to require multi factor authentication (MFA) for these connections. IoT devices include wearable devices, coffee makers, sensors, and cameras, all of which connect to the Internet. These distinct pieces of evidence can include a one-time password or a fingerprint scan.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

It sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security, including devices providing services for network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPNs), and anti-spam for email. SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

out of 10, it is classified as a pre-authentication issue which means that it could be exploited without credentials. This week, Adobe rolled out security updates to address a critical security vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2022-24086 , affecting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products that is being actively exploited in the wild.

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