Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could’ve Been Accessed Without Password. The Indian Government fixed a flaw in the secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially allowed anyone’s access without password. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Attempts to log in to my account directly at Experian.com also failed; the site said it didn’t recognize my username and/or password. ” Experian then asks for your full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, email address and chosen password. So once again I sought to re-register as myself at Experian.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

The expert Bhavuk Jain received an award of $100,000 for reporting a severe security issue in ‘Sign in with Apple’ authentication bypass bug that could allow the takeover of third-party user accounts. . The accounts are protected with two-factor authentication, and Apple does not track users’ activity in their app or website.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, one of the most active accounts targeted in this week’s social network crackdown is the Instagram profile “ Trusted ,” self-described as “top-tier professional middleman/escrow since 2014.” Those databases show Beam was just the 12th user account created on OGUsers back in 2014.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Microsoft presented a series of security enhancements for its Windows 10, including the removal of the password-expiration policy. Microsoft announced the removal of the password-expiration policy from its operating system starting with the next Windows 10 feature update (Windows 10 version 1903, a.k.a., ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

Other problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored m illions of Instagram users’ passwords in plaintext. In March, Facebook admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including “tens of thousands” passwords belonging to Instagram users as well.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. Password manager apps can help.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that ‘123456’ is still the most hacked password. Security experts at the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analyzed the 100,000 most-commonly re-occurring breached passwords using data from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 2, 2020

For example, in 2014 Egypt's police were found to be using Grindr to "trap gay people" which was particularly concerning in a country not exactly up to speed with LGBT equality. I asked for technical detail so I could validated the authenticity of his claim and the info duly arrived.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2019

Trend Micro addressed 2 DLL hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager that could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and much more. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-14684, could allow an authenticated attacker to run with SYSTEM privileges an arbitrary, unsigned DLL file within a trusted process. . Another researcher, Tr?n

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Million of password resets and two-factor authentication codes exposed in unsecured Vovox DB. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – Voxox, data leak).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link has addressed a critical vulnerability impacting some TP-Link Archer routers that could allow attackers to login without passwords. ” The flaw could allow unauthorized third-party access to the router with admin privileges without proper authentication. .” ” continues the post. ” the expert concludes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Zoom has implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts against security breaches and other cyber attacks. Zoom has announced finally implemented the two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts from unauthorized accesses. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. This can then be used to obtain domain admin credentials and then restore the original DC password.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

. “Since the beginning of March, the number of Bruteforce.Generic.RDP attacks has rocketed across almost the entire planet” Attackers attempt to brute-force the username and password used to protect RDP access to systems exposed online, they can use combinations of random characters or leverage dictionary of most popular passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

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. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

The hacker has shared 15 million user records calling for action in cracking the passwords that are hashed using the SHA2-384 hashing algorithm. The seller pointed out that the database didn’t contain the salt strings used by the hashing function, this means that cracking the passwords would be a more difficult.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The vulnerability affects the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for authentication, these applications trust certain third-party domains and sub-domains that are not registered by Microsoft. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. You can see more API calls documented here.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

The data for any specific firewall depends upon the specific configuration and may include usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access.” ” “Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

account number and points balance, but not passwords) Additional Personal Details (e.g., The company also disabled and forced the reset of the passwords of Marriott Bonvoy members impacted in the incident, it also prompted to enable multi-factor authentication. linked airline loyalty programs and numbers) Preferences (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“The authentication function contains undocumented code which provides the ability to authenticate as root without having to know the actual root password. An adversary with the private key can remotely authenticate to the management interface as root.” ” reads the advisory published by the expert.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords. One threat actor responded to the post stating that he has already cracked, or decrypted, nearly a million password hashes.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

An attacker with this key can successfully authenticate as this user to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.” While the user’s shell is limited to running the /opt/phoenix/phscripts/bin/tunnelshell script, SSH authentication still succeeds.”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. This was more than a multi-password via ssh exploit, and there was no ransom.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Cisco has addressed a high-severity flaw in the Cisco Webex video conferencing platform ( CVE-2020-3142) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enter a password-protected video conference meeting. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Change your Activision account passwords and add 2FA immediately. Activision accounts are apparently being leaked so change your password, although that might not even help because they're apparently generating 1,000 accounts every 10 minutes. Players are recommended to change their account passwords as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The hacker access to users’ data, including usernames , email addresses, SHA-2 hashed passwords, account sign-up dates and country, the last-login date, the internet (IP) address, and links to profile photos. The majority of Mixcloud users signed up via Facebook authentication, in which cases we do not store passwords.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following D-Link router vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2014-100005 Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-600 router (rev.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

BleepingComputer verified the authenticity of some of the exposed data and published the full list of the 18 archives leaked by the threat actor: Company User Records Reported Breach Date Known? The huge trove of data contains over 386 million user records, but only some of them included the user’s password. Appen.com 5.8

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Since December 2015, Alpine Linux Docker images have been shipped with hardcoded credentials, a NULL password for the root user. 3) contain a NULL password for the root user. the /etc/shadow file contains a blank field in place of the encrypted password (sp_pwdp in the context of the spwd struct returned by getspent.”

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