CSO Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

Inactive and non-maintained accounts pose significant security risks to users and businesses, with cybercriminals adept at using information stolen from forgotten or otherwise non-upheld accounts to exploit active accounts. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 3, 2023

Google has begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms, adding a new sign-in option that can be used alongside passwords and two-step verification. The tech giant announced passkey availability on the eve of World Password Day as it looks to introduce more secure, reliable sign-in options.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2022

In his career, he has seen people pick up and use dropped thumb drives, give up passwords over the phone and, yes, even click on simulated phishing links. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. He has also seen the real-world consequences of such actions. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2022

LastPass, maker of a popular password management application, revealed Thursday that an unauthorized party gained access to its development environment through a compromised developer account and stole some source code and proprietary technical information. To read this article in full, please click here

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

In a notice released to its customers, Wegmans said the type of customer information included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Shoppers Club numbers, and email addresses and passwords for access to Wegmans.com accounts. Tracy said companies really need to understand the shared security model of the cloud providers.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been widely adopted by online services over the past several years and turning it on is probably the best thing users can do for their online account security. All of this is automated and controlled by using Telegram-based bots, much like teams in organizations use Slack bots to automate workflows.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

He also says that it is very important to note that this issue was not the result of compromised account passwords, SSH keys, or personal access tokens (PATs). For the very small population of accounts that we know to be affected by this issue, we've reached out with additional information and guidance.".

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password expiration is no longer needed but many organizations are still doing it, and how fake executive profiles are becoming a huge problem for […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

By Amanda Fennell, CSO and CIO, Relativity. Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success. While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. Think about password management.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Do you recall when you last reset your Kerberos password? Hopefully that was not the last time I suggested you change it, back in April of 2021, when I urged you to do a regular reset of the KRBTGT account password.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Users of Strapi, a popular headless content management system written entirely in JavaScript and focused on API development, should update their installations as soon as possible to fix two vulnerabilities that could lead to administrative accounts being compromised. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Account takeovers (due to reused passwords), business email compromises, payment fraud, specialized mobile malware, and spam messages that contain hidden malware or poisoned web links. They just need one victim to succumb to a phishing lure to enter your network. That places a heavy burden on any email security solution.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

With the recent Colonial Pipeline attack , the initial infection point was reportedly an old, unused, but still open VPN account. The password had been found on the dark web rather than obtained via phishing , implying that it had been leaked or reused by a Colonial employee.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

As Microsoft points out, “When we look at hacked accounts, more than 99.9% don’t have MFA, making them vulnerable to password spray, phishing and password reuse. Microsoft will soon change the mandate to multi-factor authentication (MFA) with changes to Microsoft 365 defaults.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

They were also more likely to use the same password for professional and personal accounts (30% for Gen Z and 31% for millennials vs. 22% for Gen X and 15% for baby boomers). To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

The Guerilla malware can load additional payloads, intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) from SMS texts, set up a reverse proxy from the infected device, and infiltrate WhatsApp sessions. "The

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2022

million past and present customers of its investment services, as names, brokerage portfolio values and account numbers were compromised in a data breach. In an SEC filing made on Monday, Cash App parent company Block, Inc., said that it was working to contact roughly 8.2

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

SAP CSO Justin Somaini. For consumers, that means boning up on account security – maybe getting a password manager. Somaini has the distinction of being the first CSO at Yahoo and also at Symantec. October is Cybersecurity awareness month.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Upon investigation, we have concluded that such access was used to copy Okta code repositories,” writes David Bradbury, the Okta Chief Security Officer (CSO) in the mail. The Lapsus$ extortion group compromised the laptop of one of its support engineers that allowed them to reset passwords for some of its customers.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

For example: passwords being typed or posted, specific motions or commands used to activate control systems to open or unlock doors, etc.”. Kottmann also reportedly even posted some of the videos on Twitter, which later deleted the hacker’s account and their offending tweets.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How to reset a Kerberos password and get ahead of coming updates. Do you recall when you last reset your Kerberos password? Hopefully that was not the last time I suggested you change it, back in April of 2021, when I urged you to do a regular reset of the KRBTGT account password. Leer más CSO Online.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here’s what I don’t know: if any of the times I have been unable to log in to one of my OTT subscription services was due to my kids sharing our credentials or because of an account takeover — that kill chain that starts with harvesting stolen username/password combinations and then testing them via a credential stuffing attack.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Don’t make passwords easy to guess. It speaks to reason that, to #BeCyberSmart at home, we’d need to account for this increase in connectivity by applying basic security practices to all connected devices. Start by changing default passwords and the privacy/security settings on all devices. Privacy and Security Settings.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2022

Then attackers would use tools to guess the password to gain network access. They would go after administrator accounts first. Even if we changed the administrator account name or moved the Terminal Services protocol to another port, attackers would often sniff the TCP/IP traffic and identify where it was moved to.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) September 2022 Threat Horizons Report , threat actors frequently targeted weak and default passwords to access Google Cloud accounts. Once inside the compromised cloud accounts, they performed cryptomining 65% of the time. To read this article in full, please click here

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 23, 2022

Both are saying that the criminal hacking group acquired access to a user account with access to some customer data. In an article on Okta’s website , CSO David Bradbury provided a timeline of the incidents which took place in January. Change the privileged Okta passwords. Okta’s statement. Wait for more information.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

“The most significant risk for enterprises isn’t the speed at which they are applying critical patches; it comes from not applying the patches on every asset,” noted Brian Contos, CSO of Sevco Security. As of January 24th, Shadowserver researchers still detected 5,300 older and internet-exposed GitLab accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Machine identities now outnumber humans in enterprises, according to Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity. These secrets typically take the form of a username and password, but security teams must take a different approach to credentials with machine identities. Coffing recommends cryptography and private keys.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a security update published on Monday, September 19 , Uber wrote, “An Uber EXT contractor had their account compromised by an attacker. It is likely that the attacker purchased the contractor’s Uber corporate password on the dark web, after the contractor’s personal device had been infected with malware, exposing those credentials.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Here's what it is, what it's good for, and, how, far too often, it can be broken leaving your accounts wide open to attack. Like them or not, user IDs and passwords "secure" our services. What is 2FA?

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Password manager vendor Dashlane has announced updates to its suite of enterprise offerings. These include a new Dark Web Insights tool that provides a breakdown of compromised passwords, a standalone authenticator app for enabling account multi-factor authentication (MFA), and a low-cost starter plan for small businesses.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

According to the CyberArk 2022 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report , the average staff member accesses more than 30 applications and accounts, requiring them to remember and manage countless passwords and repeatedly authenticate themselves to systems and applications.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Recognizing that MFA is the greatest defense against password-based attacks such as credential stuffing and password theft, we pledge to phase out SMS-based MFA, which, while useful, does not offer the highest level of protection. Default passwords, as defined by CISA, are shared passwords preset across various products.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

For instance, furing Congressional testimony following the supply chain attack on SolarWinds’ IT management platform Orion, the company’s CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Enable 2FA and get a password manager.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Encourage your key cyber professionals to develop first-rate security awareness training materials for employees and executive staff. In the event of the Ransomware assault, the G Suite administrator will receive a notification about the incident either via e-mail or by Slack.

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