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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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

As I described in a 2019 story about an interview Fly gave to a Russian publication upon his release from a U.S. prison, his propensity for password re-use ultimately landed him in Italy’s worst prison for more than a year before he was extradited to face charges in America.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

References Free speech is not absolute - anywhere - and in the US there are numerous exceptions where free speech is not protected (and nor should it be) The more mainstream tech platforms have a history of banning all sorts of accounts for violating their terms of service, for example Twitter deleted hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts in 2015/2016 (..)

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

The same anonymity model is used (neither 1Password nor HIBP ever see your actual password) and it enables bulk checking all in one go. Get a Password Manager You have too many passwords to remember, you know they're not meant to be predictable and you also know they're not meant to be reused across different services.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager. Their ransom demands range from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, often leveraging encrypted email services like ProtonMail, Tutanota, and Skiff for communication.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.”

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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. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

The latest update released by Mozilla for Firefox patches a flaw in Firefox Password Manager that can be exploited to access stored passwords. fixes a vulnerability that can be exploited to bypass the master password in Firefox Password Manager and access stored passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11. The product has been originally emerged at XSS underground forum, and later received positive feedback on other well-established communities including Exploit.

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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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Adam Levin

JANUARY 22, 2019

While remediation for such incursions exists, you can count on losing several hours, if not days, to the process of regaining and securing your cyber defenses, not to mention the unbudgeted time you’ll need to drop everything and learn how to manage and maintain that security. If you want to go pro, you should. What do you have to lose?

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. VCPI manages the IT systems for some 110 clients that serve approximately 2,400 nursing homes in 45 U.S. Cloud-based health insurance management portals. .” VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. Direct deposit and Medicaid billing portals.

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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. Some of us use applications like @1Password and want to use longer passwords. This just feels wrong but I can’t come up with a strong argument against it.

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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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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. These systems store your passwords in a single encrypted vault. But protecting your password manager is a password… so what do you set your password manager password to?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Keeper is the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption software covering enterprise password management, role-based access control, event tracking, dark web monitoring, secure file storage, secrets management and encrypted messaging. Keeper is SOC-2, FIPS 140-2 and ISO 27001 Certified.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

If managing multiple passwords is an issue for you, consider using a password manager that generates unique passwords for your accounts and remembers them for you. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% of all reports to the BBB Scam Tracker “were online purchase scams, up from 24.3% On top of that, 80.5%

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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. You can start with the most basic measure of changing the router’s password to a stronger one before moving to advance options that involve router configuration. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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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 researcher did not report the vulnerability to Apple, it publicly disclosed the existence of the flaw without making public its details. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. million former account holders.

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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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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. One weird trick to improve your passwords. Teaching users to be better users is a long game.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

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. Trend Micro addressed two DLL Hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

It was Kumar who discovered the exposed password, which was accessible online since at least June 2018, up until SolarWinds corrected the issue in November 2019. However, no connection to the SolarWinds attack and the leaked password has been established so far. “The Many password managers are free,” said Carson.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests. ” SEPTEMBER.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 11, 2024

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

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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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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.

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Threatpost

MARCH 5, 2019

Consumer confidence in companies keeping their data safe is at an all-time low, but password hygiene and not reading EULAs and app permissions remain big problems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2021

123123: This password has been hacked over 2,238,694 times. iloveyou: Password hacked 1,643,337 times. 1q2w3e4r5t: password hacked 1,199,289 times. monkey: password hacked 992,381 times. dragon: password hacked 984,209 times. 123456a: password hacked 980,190 times. 654321: password hacked 953,549 times.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Delaler Leads, a car dealer marketing firm exposed 198 Million records online.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

In a recent statement, AT&T confessed that the leaked data set "appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 This includes updating credentials, using password managers, enabling multi-factor authentication, freezing credit reports, and signing up for identity theft protection services. "In

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

After a data breach in 2023 Cerebral disclosed that it had been using invisible pixel trackers from Google, Meta (Facebook), TikTok, and other third parties on its online services since October 2019. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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