Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

2019 will be the year consumers start thinking more about cyber hygiene , and the year Congress becomes more proactive in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. Identity theft has become the third certainty in life after death and taxes, and consumer-friendly solutions to protecting against it will profit nicely in 2019.

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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. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

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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. Website, username and password: That's just the first 20 rows out of 5 million in that particular file, but it gives you a good sense of the data. Is it legit? The VideoScribe service on line 9: Exists.

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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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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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Adam Levin

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to a study published in December by SplashData of the more than 5 million passwords compromised by hacks last year, way too many were laughably inadequate. Another year has come and gone, and consumers are still using the same old bad passwords to protect their accounts. Here’s the top 25: 1. 123456789.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’. Have I Been Pwned?’

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

World Password Day is celebrated in May every year and is being done since 2013 as a group of Cybersecurity Professionals declared the first Thursday of May every year as the day to celebrate as the security day of our online lives. And remember, passwords can be stolen, compromised and can be easily forgotten.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That Was Then, This is Now 2FA Usage Continues its Climb Two-factor authentication has become notably more prevalent over the last two years, with 79% of respondents reporting having used it in 2021, compared to 53% in 2019 and 28% in 2017. Email is the second most common second factor (74%), with a notable increase compared to 2019 (57%).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2021

Media has been trying its best to create awareness among online users about the need to go for passwords that are difficult to guess or hack. Despite that, most users are seen indulging in a pursuit of using the same password on multiple platforms and that too which is easy to guess for hackers through password spray cyber attacks.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

The continued existence of World Password Day is a tell that something has gone badly wrong in cybersecurity. And make no mistake, password authentication is critical technology. The existence of World Password Day is a symptom of two problems. The existence of World Password Day is a symptom of two problems.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

There has probably been a time in your life when you created a new account for a website or service and chose a password that was less than ideal. NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. It is worth taking a look to make sure your password has not made the list.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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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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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? That's it, job done, they're into your account.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Change your passwords. If you’re using the same password across a number of accounts, you are more vulnerable to cyber criminals. This is especially risky if you’re using the same password for your credit card and banking accounts. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% On top of that, 80.5% Bottom line.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

Back in October 2022, I wrote an article called Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong. Most damningly of all, the vast effort involved in dispensing this advice over decades has generated little discernible improvement in people’s password choices.

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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. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

rows of email addresses and passwords in total, but only 1.6B — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 25, 2019. 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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain. The security expert Linus Henze has disclosed the existence of a zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave that can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. ” SEPTEMBER.

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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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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.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2024

Post by Sp1d3r on breach forum The post also mentions Suntrust bank because Truist Bank arose after SunTrust Banks and BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company) merged in December 2019. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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