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Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn's URL shortener

Malwarebytes

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Malwarebytes DNS filtering blocks malicious websites used for phishing attacks, as well as websites used to spread or control malware. Use a password manager. Not good at all. Use a FIDO2 2FA device.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

I've implemented CAA on HIBP and it's simply a matter of some DNS records and a check with a CAA validator : Unfortunately, there are no such records for Aadhaar: Now in fairness to Aadhaar, CAA is very new and the take-up is low ; we cannot be critical of them for not having implemented it yet. Blocking Paste.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Partnering with SentinelOne , N-able launched its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and password management solutions in 2019. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. Behold the tale of kid who reuses their passwords & ends up pwn'd, then learns how to stay safe. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Driving Passwordless Forward With WebAuthn

Duo's Security Blog

But when I was there, one of the first projects I worked on was auth systems for mostly DNS. And figuring out how we could route sellers’ custom websites to our website, and have the DNS records match up, and handle SSL. I would say use a password manager. Definitely don’t reuse passwords.