Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Actually, I'll rephrase that: because he was a normal guy; he's not normal anymore because yesterday I carved out some time to give him an early Christmas present: Today I spent an hour getting a mate into @1Password. Not upset, that was still a great value Christmas present, but this is, well, literally twice as great value!

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Hackers are acutely aware that basic corporate account credentials present a significant vulnerability, increasing the stakes for SMBs in particular. The post Securing SMBs in a Cloud-Driven World: Best Practices for Cost-Effective Digital Hygiene Through Verified Authentication appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. They also can use stolen personal information for identity theft, opening fraudulent accounts. Cyberattacks designed to steal identity are on the rise.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One piece of evidence to support this hypothesis is the low adoption of a basic security control that protects against identity-based attacks - multi-factor authentication (MFA). Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

BingoMod is a new Android malware that can wipe devices after stealing money from the victims’ bank accounts. Researchers at Cleafy discovered a new Android malware, called ‘BingoMod,’ that can wipe devices after successfully stealing money from the victims’ bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

One new tactic hackers have been using is to steal cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even cloud infrastructures rely on cookies to authenticate their users. Browsers allow users to maintain authentication, remember passwords and autofill forms. How Hackers Steal Cookies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

While verification and authentication are terms that are often used interchangeably, they are in fact two separate operations. Digital verification and authentication play a critical role in preventing fraud and cyberattacks. What is Identity Authentication? What are the Most Common Authentication Methods? Image Source.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

We implement two factor authentication. This is an excellent primer from Catalin Cimpanu, and it describes how in order to circumvent the aforementioned fraud protection measures, cybercriminals are increasingly relying on obtaining more abstract pieces of information from victims in order to gain access to their accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity shared information about the allegedly hijacked account with the DEA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Justice , which houses both agencies. The DEA declined to comment on the validity of the claims, issuing only a brief statement in response.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Enter Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA for short. It’s a security method that requires you to present not one but two forms of ID before granting you access. Then, your account will ask for a secondary code, usually sent via SMS to your phone. Go to your account settings and look for the security section. Sorry, hackers!

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The zero-day seeing exploitation involves CVE-2024-49138 , a security weakness in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver — used by applications to write transaction logs — that could let an authenticated attacker gain “system” level privileges on a vulnerable Windows device.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

” So, naturally, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Sanixer via Telegram to find out more about the origins of Collection #1, which he is presently selling for the bargain price of just $45. “Because the data is gathered from a number of breaches, typically older data, it does not present a direct danger to the general user community.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

2FA, MFA, 2-Step They may all be familiar, but there are important differences that warrant explanation and we'll start with the acronym we most commonly see: 2FA is two-factor authentication. If someone obtains the thing that you know then it's (probably) game over and they have access to your account. It's a subset of MFA.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” It’s also worth mentioning that reports of hijacked Experian.com accounts persisted into late 2022. ” Sen.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

“According to a police report, someone opened fraudulent credit card accounts and charged more than $14,000 and signed her neighbors up for Informed Delivery, too,” Clickorlando’s Louis Bolden explained. The only problem was she’d never signed up for the USPS program.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock. Image: Infoblox.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

In a Zero Trust Network Architecture, for example, all systems behave as if there is an attacker present on their network: Because the attacker may be making requests, all connections must be authenticated, and. Because the attacker may be listening to the data moving across the network, all traffic must be encrypted.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2023

An ongoing campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts has led to victims losing control of their accounts, or being locked out following repeated login attempts. Credential stuffing is a popular tactic of attempting to access online accounts using username-password combinations acquired from breached data.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the researcher who reported the finding says he fears the same weakness may be present at countless other lending websites that work with the credit bureau. “Too many consumer finance company accounts,” the API concluded about my friend’s score.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service. com sometime around Dec.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

The breach tracking service HaveIBeenPwned.com and the cybercrime-focused Twitter account vx-underground both concluded the leak is the same information first put up for sale in April 2024 by a prolific cybercriminal who goes by the name “ USDoD.” “I was not the first one to get it.”

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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. This just feels wrong but I can’t come up with a strong argument against it.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

They sent me a file with 207k scraped records and a URL that looked like this: [link] But they didn't send me my account, in fact I didn't even have an account at the time and if I'm honest, I had to go and look up exactly what Spoutible was. nZNQcqsEYki", Oh wow!

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Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Many Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) will be removed next month. According to Twitter, only subscribers to its premium Twitter Blue service will be able to use text message-based 2FA to protect their accounts. Is that such a good idea?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Customers can access a Salesforce Community website in two ways: Authenticated access (requiring login), and guest user access (no login required). This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” account on Carder[.]su

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2019

Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. Nixon said countless companies have essentially built their customer authentication around the phone number, and that a great many sites still let users reset their passwords with nothing more than a one-time code texted to a phone number on the account. I went on Yahoo!

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. No authentication was required to read the documents. Image: Linkedin.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. ” Apparently, these elite cyber risk leaders did not consider the increased attack surface presented by their employees using T-Mobile for wireless service.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to researchers, the leak revealed an authentication server with login details and information on Liquipedia’s users along with authentication details for Liquipedia admins. Alongside user information, administrator-level details were also present in the “clients” collection.

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