Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

This 2018 story from travel blog goatsontheroad.com tells the tale of a couple that was very nearly scammed by a Land Lordz-like trap, before the wife figures out they’re no longer on airbnb.com. According to twofactorauth.org , Airbnb currently does not support any type of multi-factor authentication that users can enable.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

. “We know hackers sometimes delete content when they gain access to an account, and until now people had no way of easily getting their photos and videos back,” Instagram explained in a blog post. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To automatically populate the appropriate credentials at any website going forward, you simply authenticate to LastPass using your master password. A chart on Palant’s blog post offers an idea of how increasing password iterations dramatically increases the costs and time needed by the attackers to crack someone’s master password.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged the authentication weakness documented by Guilmette. “After investigating the matter, our team confirmed that a threat actor(s) abused our DNS setup process,” the company said in an emailed statement. “But it’s clearly still a big problem.”

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Predicting a global pandemic that reshaped how we interact with each other and our devices at a fundamental level […]. The post 3 Cybersecurity Resolutions to Survive 2021 appeared first on NuData Security. The post 3 Cybersecurity Resolutions to Survive 2021 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

how to secure wifi for remote work, working from home securely, security home network, secure wifi network, remote work security risks, work from home security best practices. The post Keeping employee data safe – no matter where they may be appeared first on NuData Security.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’ve all experienced digital growing pains in the era of COVID-19. Whether it’s ordering food delivery off a smartphone […]. The post Escaping the echo chamber: How to make cybersecurity accessible for all appeared first on NuData Security.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The post The not-so-obvious cost of fraud to your company’s bottom line appeared first on NuData Security. The post The not-so-obvious cost of fraud to your company’s bottom line appeared first on Security Boulevard. It’s no longer a matter of if your business data has been breached; it’s a matter of how much […].

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2021

One fraud executive interviewed for this report summarized the problem with application fraud in one phrase: “Identity is broken.”. The post New report: Application fraud is a serious threat to financial institutions appeared first on NuData Security.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

In a blog post about their recent hack, Microsoft said LAPSUS$ succeeded against its targets through a combination of low-tech attacks, mostly involving old-fashioned social engineering — such as bribing employees at or contractors for the target organization. “It’s near impossible to get U.S. But not all have it.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although he didn’t technically have an account with MSF, their authentication system is based on email addresses, so Jim requested that a password reset link be sent to his email address. That worked, and once inside the account Jim could see more about the loan details: The terms of the unauthorized loan in Jim’s name from MSF.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers figured out that many major companies have uploaded massive amounts of valuable and sensitive customer data to Snowflake servers, all the while protecting those Snowflake accounts with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required).

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