The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The infamous Mirai botnet self-replicated by seeking out hundreds of thousands of home routers with weak or non-existent passwords. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. From there Mirai spread voraciously between other types of consumer IoT devices, as well as corporate computers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. “They use lists of usernames and passwords gathered from the breaches you hear about nearly every day on the news. .” The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Threat actors exploited a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40539 , in the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus software, which is self-service password management and single sign-on solution. KdcSponge allows capturing the domain name, username, and password.

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Healthcare Password Management Financial Services Surveillance 121

Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, introduced in 2017, was groundbreaking, setting a high bar for financial institutions. Email addresses or usernames combined with passwords or security questions. predating similar efforts in many other jurisdictions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

In other words, bad actors glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. And, there remains general bad hygiene surrounding the creation of usernames and passwords, with many being reused over multiple websites. Good password hygiene and password managers. “If

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Onfido, a London-based company, offers photo-based IDV services for businesses. Financial service providers, car rentals, and many other suppliers that need to confirm customer identities employ similar third-party services. Consider using a password manager to create strong passwords and store them securely.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

The ManageEngine IT security portfolio spans everything from privileged access management (PAM) to network configuration to password management. It provides controls for managing security from all angles. There are also many specific use cases for education, healthcare, manufacturing, government and financial services.

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Firewall Password Management Financial Services Manufacturing 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2020

I had much more authority when I was working in financial services," Sherry said. We had a recent roll out of a password manager, for example. Behavioral changes such as the adoption and uses of technology like the password manager. Launching weekly roundtable discussions around risk.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

infrastructure sectors, including healthcare, government services, financial services, and critical manufacturing. Throughout 2024, RedLine demonstrated its effectiveness by stealing over 170 million passwords in just a six-month period, highlighting its massive impact.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft said it notified the targeted 150 organizations, which included “IT companies (57%), followed by government (20%), and smaller percentages for non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services.” Only three of the 150 entities actually got compromised. Cyber hygiene works.

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