Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the first step of the attack, they peppered the target’s Apple device with notifications from Apple by attempting to reset his password. The target told Michael that someone was trying to change his password, which Michael calmly explained they would investigate. “Password is changed,” the man said.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers.

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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. “If you want proof we have hacked T-Systems as well. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. For organizations that have made that jump, sticking with a simple username and password to protect a globally accessible email server is far from good enough.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Then, it re-encrypts the system using a randomly generated password. This unique password is uploaded to a server controlled by the attacker. The random password is generated from network traffic and memory data, making brute-forcing difficult. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

One reason may be that these facilities don’t have to disclose such events when they do happen. “Some utilities are afraid that if their vulnerabilities are shared the hackers will have some inside knowledge on how to hack them,” Arceneaux said. “There’s no business case for hacking these types of systems.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's usually something to the effect of "hey, have you seen the Spotify breach", to which I politely reply with a link to my old No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked blog post (it's just the output of a small set of credentials successfully tested against their service), and we all move on. Is it legit?

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SecureList

JUNE 18, 2024

A side effect is that passwords that were impossible to guess just a few years ago can be cracked by hackers within mere seconds in 2024. For example, the RTX 4090 GPU is capable of guessing an eight-character password consisting of same-case English letters and digits, or 36 combinable characters, within just 17 seconds.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. In this scenario, the attacker temporarily assumes the identity and online privileges assigned to a hacked employee, and the onus is on the employer to tell the difference. Microsoft Corp.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This is where the "more than 23,000 hacked databases" headlines come from as this is how many files are in the archive. txt" had a small number of email address and password hex pairs. I mean can we trust that both the email addresses and passwords from these alleged breaches represent actual accounts on those services?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2020

I felt genuinely excited talking about this; they'll be less than half the price of in-person events, no travel, no accommodation costs and we've both run a heap of these remotely in the past too so this is a pretty well-known process for us. I'll be publishing information about these events early next week.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 2, 2021

See the references for all the details, but plenty of cyber, some IoT weather station discussion and a bit of chatter around career and me deciding I want to do a "Hack Your Career More" talk once we all get back to doing events in person. Stay tuned for that last one in particular!

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 1, 2022

These techniques are not new, but they’re increasingly popular : …some forms of MFA are stronger than others, and recent events show that these weaker forms aren’t much of a hurdle for some hackers to clear.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress ), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Users can share password files securely with encrypted transmissions. Vault health reports Directory sync Secure password sharing. Key Features.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“The NKTsKI recommends that all organizations change passwords and keys for accessing their systems operated in LANIT data processing centers as soon as possible. ” NKTsKI recommends organizations to strengthen monitoring of threats and information security events in systems provided by LANIT. ” said U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

Case in point: a colossal password compilation dubbed "RockYou2024" has emerged, containing nearly 10 billion unique passwords. The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. Change passwords regularly.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2024

For real, this it perhaps the most Nordic thing I've ever seen (Stefán being from Iceland and all), but unfortunately videos don't really lend themselves to hero images, so I went switch a stylised AI-generated rendition of the event.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But doesn't this all make biometrics like passwords? What happens if someone obtains, say, my fingerprint just like they may obtain my password in a data breach or a phishing attack? So, what was required to obtain the print and how does it differ from obtaining a password? A password? because you can. That is all.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

I'm completely disorganised, rushing to the next event and really didn't plan this very well. if you'd like to change your password (frankly, I'd be more inclined to change my bank!) if you'd like to change your password (frankly, I'd be more inclined to change my bank!) Yes, I'm in my car. Mass surveillance is a reality.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Keyboard and mouse apps connect to a server on a desktop or laptop computer and transmit mouse and keyboard events to a remote server. Similarly, an exploit of the insecure communication vulnerability exposes the user’s keystrokes, including sensitive information such as usernames and passwords.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 27, 2021 multiple cybersecurity media outlets began reporting on LastPass users who believed their master passwords had been stolen. LastPass is a “password manager” with both a web-based interface and mobile app that can help you generate, store, and access all of the ways you secure your favorite services.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

All kidding aside, in a bizarre turn of events, owners of robot vacuums across the U.S. have reported that their devices have been hacked. Swenson reset the vacuum's password, only for it to begin zooming around and yelling the N-word repeatedly, all within earshot of one of his children.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

(I'll gradually go through the house and replace all the wall sockets with these) Was Activision "hacked" or do people just choose bad passwords?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. Those data categories are necessary to protect but most likely not sufficient to keep your organization running smoothly in the event of an outage or cybersecurity crisis. Scheduling? Educate employees.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2019

and higher can now be used as Security Keys , an additional authentication layer that helps thwart phishing sites and password theft. Once a user has enrolled their Android phone as a Security Key, the user will need to approve logins via a prompt sent to their phone after submitting their username and password at a Google login page.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Researchers Radek Domanski and Pedro Ribeiro originally planned to present their findings at the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Tokyo last year. But just days before the event Western Digital released MyCloud OS 5 , which eliminated the bug they found. The researchers said Western Digital never responded to their reports.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

In the event a customer suspects they may have exposed their credentials, they can start by following the steps listed in this post. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Codefinger ransomware)

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

All of these can be extinction-level events. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. . ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Someone has transferred almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet to another wallet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BitCoin wallet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dive into core cybersecurity concepts like encryption, secure password practices, endpoint protection, and incident response. Each piece of knowledge is a potential ticket into conversations, networking events, and job opportunities. Think of this like packing a snowball. You need it tight and solid before you roll it anywhere.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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