Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

txt" had a small number of email address and password hex pairs. I mean can we trust that both the email addresses and passwords from these alleged breaches represent actual accounts on those services? txt" and true to its name, it appears from the forgotten password email that they were never even hashed in the first place.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 18, 2018. Third party password managers are precisely what we need to address the scourge of account takeover attacks driven by sloppy password management on behalf of individuals.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Over recent weeks, I've begun planning the release of the 3rd version of Pwned Passwords. If you cast your mind back, version 1 came along in August last year and contained 320M passwords. We'll start with the raw numbers: in total, there are 517,238,891 passwords which is 15.6M more than in V2.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Later in 2018, I did the same thing with the email address search feature used by Mozilla, 1Password and a handful of other paying subscribers. is the middle one.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

House Oversight and Homeland Security committees last week, SolarWinds’s former and current CEOs blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub – an act which may or may not have contributed to a supply chain hack that impacted users of the tech firm’s Orion IT performance monitoring platform.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. By 2018, TrickBot was the largest threat to businesses.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

thanks @troyhunt for the excellent @haveibeenpwned service that notifies users of #privacy disasters like this :) [link] pic.twitter.com/jlqnKXteDG — Yale Privacy Lab (@YalePrivacyLab) June 4, 2018. I at least know about it, thx to @haveibeenpwned — Tim Plas (@TJPlas) June 3, 2018. ticketfly a heads up would have been nice.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. It seems obvious and important therefore to tell users not to reuse passwords.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

A massive cyber espionage campaign targeting a slew of domains for government agencies across the Middle East region between 2018 and 2019 was preceded by a series of targeted attacks on domain registrars and Internet infrastructure firms that served those countries. Nation-state level attackers also are taking a similar approach.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Use a password manager. It’s clear that we will continue to be reliant on usernames and passwords to access online services for some time to come. Everyone should be using one.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Known since 2018, Amadey has been the subject of numerous security reports. The purpose here is likely to generate further revenue for its operators by boosting views of these websites, similar to adware: Payload: Amadey Trojan We recently discovered that the same campaign is now spreading the Amadey Trojan as well.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018. FergusInLondon) January 10, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. The first domain was “ ns0.idm.net.lb

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

The password management company LastPasss notified customers in late December about a recent security incident. LastPass states that users that followed their best password practices have nothing to worry about. It is recommended that you never reuse your master password on other websites. Unencrypted data.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. A video of Kanye West from 2018 purportedly revealed that the rapper and producer’s iPhone passcode was 000000.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. Leaked data included email addresses, password hashes ( bcrypt hashes with a unique salt for each user), IP addresses and, in some cases, first and last names and password hints.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

billion stolen usernames, passwords and other personal data. Related: Massive Marriott breach closes out 2018. This is where criminals deploy botnets to automate the injection of surreptitiously obtained usernames and password pairs until they gain fraudulent access to a targeted account. ” Third-party risks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Devolutions is a Montreal, Canada-based company that provides remote connection in addition to password and privileged access management (PAM) solutions to SMBs. million — damages that would crush most SMBs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Reddit seems to exclude a security breach of its systems, it pointed out that the root cause of the accounts lockdown is caused by the use of simple passwords on its website and from the reuse of those passwords on multiple services. I’m leaning toward the former.” ” wrote a Reddit user. ” explained the admin.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

rows of email addresses and passwords in total, but only 1.6B They learned about the phenomenon that is data breaches and credential stuffing lists, they read about password managers and 2FA and inevitably, many of them subsequently made behavioural changes to their security practices. There were 2.7B

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. The spear-phishing messages attempt to trick the victims into installing malware on their computer that allows attacker to steal or obtain access to a password manager account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

username and your Discord ID, your email-address, your billing address, and a salted and hashed password if you signed up in 2018 or earlier. (In In 2018 discord.io Affected Discord users should change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). Change your password. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. Don’t reuse passwords!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft for the past few years has been among the loudest vendors calling for a security future that doesn’t include passwords. In 2018, the software giant took the step of doing away with passwords for people signing into its Edge web browser, saying instead they could use a number of alternatives. Passwords are Unpopular.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. Pick a Strong Password Manager. Employees inevitably rely on a few identical or similar passwords for multiple accounts. Make Use of Multifactor Authentication.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. Discord offers some tips on how to keep your account safe : Use a strong password, and one that is unique to your Discord account. You’ll also frequently see bots pushing offers for things which simply don’t exist anymore. How to protect your Discord account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. Billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June, an overall number of 30 billion malicious logins were observed between November 2017 and June 2018, an average of 3.75 The experts detected 8.3

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. .

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2021

” The majority of the data breached are credential information, such as usernames and passwords, with the former usually being an email address. For starters, change your password. You can formulate your own long password, or you can enlist the help of a password manager. Make it longer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

According to Dailymotion, the attack took the form of a guessing game of sorts, the passwords of some Dailymotion accounts being drawn from a huge number of known login/password combinations, or by using passwords stolen from websites unrelated to Dailymotion. This strategy is made easier with a password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. Think about password management. The average person, in their personal and professional life, may be managing as many as 200 application accounts, each with a password. About Amanda Fennell.

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