Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors.

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Popular fast food restaurant chain Chik-fil-A recently said it was investigating reports of "suspicious activity" on customer accounts. chik-fil-a.com #cybersecurity #infosec @ChickfilA pic.twitter.com/kWSBpvQCNt — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD). The breach that he mentions apparently involves customer accounts and loyalty points.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Through the course of this year, Gartner forecasts that the infosec market will climb 9 percent to $124 billion. Use a password manager. It’s clear that we will continue to be reliant on usernames and passwords to access online services for some time to come. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner. Secure your phone.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The vulnerabilities have been reported to HP by the infosec researchers Nick Bloor, an attacker could chain the three issues to achieve SYSTEM privileges on targeted devices and potentially take over them. The issue does not impact customers who use Active Directory authenticated accounts. ” reads the HP’s advisory.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details, KYC details (PAN number, passport numbers) and deposit history. The leaked data contains Name, Email, Mobile, bank account numbers, PAN Number, Wallets Details etc. Trading in #cryptocurrency ?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

An alleged member of the @HotarusCorp leaked on a hacking forum a link to a file containing 6500 records (Email, Identity Card numbers, and passwords) that claims to Ministry of Finance. breach #infosec #deepwebnews @FinanzasEc @EcuCERT_EC pic.twitter.com/WTbXz8EYLx — Security Chronicle (@SecurChronicle) February 23, 2021. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation for the suspension of their primary account. ” reported SOCRadar.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

rows of email addresses and passwords in total, but only 1.6B Incidentally, Lorenzo who wrote that Motherboard piece is a top-notch infosec journo I've worked with many times before and he reported accurately in that piece.) The exposed data included email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. There were 2.7B

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat actors compromised a Cisco employee’s credentials after they gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

These guidelines should include the following: Set up a Strong Password Policy. One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

As a simple example, consider the idea of passwords. It was once the case that passwords were a cornerstone of the role of humans in cybersecurity. You would choose a password that only you knew, and without that password, no one could get access to your account. Are humans still needed in cybersecurity?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2023

The other vulnerabilities included cross-site scripting (XSS), potentially used to hijack accounts or impersonate others (CVE-2023-36459), and a technique used for phishing through “verified profile links” (CVE-2023-36462). The final flaw allowed for Denial of Service (DoS) through slow HTTP responses (CVE-2023-36461).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

These threats manifest in various forms, such as account takeovers, unintended publicly available links, malicious applications, and more. Detection of lateral movement from a disabled MFA demo account into production via OAuth, as a malicious app, directly into employee mailboxes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

More at: [link] #cybersecurity #InfoSec #VulnerabilityManagement pic.twitter.com/hNwDHFaPtt — CISA Cyber (@CISACyber) March 10, 2023 “This issue allowed an attacker with access to the server administrator’s Plex account to upload a malicious file via the Camera Upload feature and have the media server execute it. .

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We only had Infosec Europe and the most we got out of there was some free USB sticks… If we were lucky they would be 500 megs. It’s so easy to manipulate anyone that works in infosec. Yeah, infosec is full of characters. Passwords. I mean take for example passwords – they were a funny thing even back then.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Let them paste passwords!

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some items to consider: A bank issues you with an account number and asks for verification when you want to make a transaction, but this process can’t take so long that it slows down other customer waiting in line. If supermarkets can apply this type of thinking and control, how does this align with infosec & cybersecurity?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

As any infosec manager will tell you, no matter how secure your infrastructure, anyone with the right credentials can walk through the front door. They also can use stolen personal information for identity theft, opening fraudulent accounts. Identity security is the greatest weakness in enterprise security.

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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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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this Spotlight edition of the Security Ledger podcast, Rachel Stockton of LastPass * joins us to discuss the myriad of challenges facing companies trying to secure users' online activities, and simple solutions for busting insecure user behaviors to address threats like phishing, account takeover and more.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. The BlackByte ransomware gang has already claimed responsibility for the attack by leaking a small number of files it claims to have been stolen. Smart marketing tbh.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock. Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock. The Persistence of Passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

" Thing is, "control" is a bit of a nuanced term; there are many people in roles where they don't have access to any of the above means of verification but they're legitimately responsible for infosec and responding to precisely the sorts of notifications HIBP sends out after a breach.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. The top malware type is Password Dumper, because it really is about getting those creds. Within hacking, web applications accounted for over 95% of breaches. The Dataviz Game on Point.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Read our joint advisory with the @FBI for technical details and recommended actions: [link] #InfoSec #InfoSecurity #Protect2020 pic.twitter.com/D2Clny9zUI — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov). October 10, 2020. CISA details what the TTPs look like in this attack.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 31, 2022

Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. Answer: Effective, cross-platform and easy-to-implement password-less authentication with regular assessment of account/system behavior to enforce expected behavior and identify anomalous actions. Get to know Randy Raw.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. That does not mean it is not right sometimes, if the targets have not changed a password in a while, they can still be valid.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching. The attacks are targeting U.S. industries and government agencies.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2023

In this episode, we explore the arrival of passwordless Google accounts that use “passkeys,” which offer enhanced usability and security. We discuss the benefits of passkeys over traditional passwords, but also why passkeys are not quite ready for prime time use.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. Once the victim invests, they will keep pressuring them to pour in more money. What You Can Do.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Someone asked whether to add the company's Facebook page to their information asset register (implying that it would need to be risk-assessed and secured using the Information Security Management System processes), or whether the asset should be the Facebook account (ID and password, I guess)**.

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McAfee

JULY 31, 2020

Mistakes like misconfiguration and accidental credential exposure will happen in the development process, which is where InfoSec teams need to step in. Audit Cloud Accounts for Misconfiguration . It is a best practice to never commit code with hard-coded/plaintext credentials to your repositories. .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Attackers may try to get their victims to reveal their date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or account passwords. Additionally, they may be able to manipulate these high-level employees into wiring large amounts of money into the attacker’s account. Whaling Defenses.

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