Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. “But a registrar should not act on instructions coming from a random email address or other account that is not even connected to the domain in question.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Just 15 percent of people use a password manager. Just 35 percent of people have unique passwords for most or all of their accounts. Creating strong, unique passwords is simple enough, as any person can throw a cat at a keyboard and likely fulfill the password requirements for most online accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords. Now the company is expanding the passwordless push to all Microsoft accounts. Google automatically makes account holders use two-factor authentication.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 11, 2024

Social media platforms and online forums are full of lamentations by Disney+ users’ complaints about their hacked Disney accounts. The highly anticipated launch of Disney+ in November 2019 wasn't without its hiccups.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

— Peter Ullrich (@PJUllrich) September 15, 2019 It feels wrong because 5 digits presents an extremely limited set of different possible combinations the password can be. However, after 3 attempts of entering an Access Code your account will be blocked. Any thoughts? troyhunt @SmashinSecurity ? I understand your concerns.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 22, 2019

Another year has come and gone, and consumers are still using the same old bad passwords to protect their accounts. Despite repeated predictions of its demise as a security protocol, the use of passwords to protect accounts isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Here’s the top 25: 1. 123456789.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Keep a close eye on your accounts. So, either check your bank and credit card accounts daily or sign up for free transaction monitoring programs which notify you whenever there is activity in your bank, credit union or credit card accounts. Change your passwords. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% Bottom line.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. Shipping and postage accounts.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Occasionally though, the corpus of data is of much greater significance, most notably the Collection #1 incident of early 2019. That said, if you're following the age-old guidance of using a password manager, creating strong and unique ones and turning 2FA on for all your things, this incident should be a non-event.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else. If it says a password you use has breached, you know to never use it again.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about, this one eventually triggering an email to me just last week: Let's imagine you're the first person on the list; you get a notification from HIBP, you check out the paste and see your Hotmail account listed there alongside your Spotify password and the plan you're subscribed to.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

One of the key significant improvements are support of more software clients (including browser-based cryptocurrency wallets), upgraded credit card (CC) grabber, and additional advanced mechanisms for password storage dump on various platforms to extract credentials and tokens.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On January 9, 2019, security vendor FireEye released its report , “Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale,” which went into far greater technical detail about the “how” of the espionage campaign, but contained few additional details about its victims. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

million current customers, and the leaked data is “from 2019 or earlier” Based on our preliminary analysis, the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders. Change your password.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

Microsoft says that we need to ditch passwords forever to stay safe online as there are 921 password attacks taking place every second all over the world that have doubled from 463 in the year 2019. And remember, passwords can be stolen, compromised and can be easily forgotten. percent of accounts from being compromised.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Note that by router’s password, we mean the password that protects your Wi-Fi configuration, not the one that permits access to the network. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. In a recent statement, AT&T confessed that the leaked data set "appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

The communication involved a mail server for a European energy sector organization and took place between November 2019 and at least January 5, 2020. ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future. The activity predated the recent escalation of kinetic activity between the U.S. ” concludes the report.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

She said CopperStealer, which Proofpoint fully describes in a blog post , exhibits many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Examples include the 2019 Hong Kong protests, which described the events as “riots funded by the CIA.”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Henze has published a video PoC for the flaw that shows how to use malware to extract passwords from the local Keychain password management system. The attack is sneaky because it doesn’t require admin privileges for both the malicious app and the user account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Asked about “solarwinds123” during last Friday’s Congressional hearing, former CEO Kevin Thompson called the password “a mistake that an intern made. They violated our password policies and they posted that password… on their own private GitHub account. Many password managers are free,” said Carson.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. Checkers and Rally's (2019): The fast-food chain reported a point-of-sale malware attack affecting more than 100 locations. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K. Requirement 7.2.5:

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

The technology behind the former (“same device passkey”) is not new: it was originally developed within the FIDO Alliance and first implemented by Google in August 2019 in select flows. This technology behind passkeys allows users to log in to their account using any form of device-based user verification, such as biometrics or a PIN code.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums. Adobe Patch Tuesday for August 2019 fixed 119 flaws in 8 products. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2019 patch 93 bugs, including 2 dangerous wormable issues. Security Patch Day for August includes the most critical Note released by SAP in 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? million on average. million on average, a potentially crippling amount.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2021

So, Cybersecurity Insiders has brought a list of 42 passwords that have been hacked over 50,000 times in the past 2 years. The aim is to discourage users from using one of the below stated passwords for their online account logins. 0123456: A password that has been hacked over 23,607,311 times.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2024

80 supply chain attacks accounted for 446 affected entities and over 10 million victims. The number of data breaches where driver’s license data was stolen totaled 198 instances in pre-pandemic, full-year 2019 compared to 636 in full-year 2023 and 308 through June 30, 2024. Change your password. Take your time.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. Use a password manager to make it easier to create and use strong, unique passwords for each service you use.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Passed in 2019, the NY SHIELD Act requirement modernized breach notification rules and introduced a flexible framework for data security, ensuring it remains relevant in a rapidly changing digital landscape. Email addresses or usernames combined with passwords or security questions. fingerprints, retina scans).

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. Those behind the attack published online screenshots of personal information onto a website called Clop, which ranged from Social Security numbers to bank account information. It goes deeper.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 10, 2024

The leaked customer information dates back to mid-2019 and earlier. This prevents creditors from accessing your credit report, making it difficult for fraudsters to open new accounts in your name. Reset Usernames and Passwords Help ensure that your online accounts are protected by strong, unique passwords.

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