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Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?
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Captivating stuff, apart from infosec, you really feel as though you’ve been taken on a journey with Troy through the years of living in paradise a.k.a. Troy Hunt takes us on his life journey, ups and downs, explaining how haveIbeenpwned came to be, raising awareness of the world’s poor password and online security habits.
The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Xbash gets rolling by infecting one device, which then serves as the launch pad for deeper hacking forays limited only by the attacker’s initiative. Use a passwordmanager.
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. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.
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. .”
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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HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & passwordmanager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. Passive Recon & OSINT: First of all (even without attempting to open the token) we can immediately notice our best-hardware-hacking-friend: the FCC ID.
Now, instead of having to remember all of your passwords, you simply need to set a strong password (which will be much harder to hack) and your browser will remember it for you. This went a step further with the rise of profiles, such as Google Accounts, which can remember passwords across multiple devices.
Perhaps we thought, who would want to hack a completely unknow person like me? The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency , lists the following 4 steps to protect yourself: Implement multi-factor authentication on your accounts and make it significantly less likely you’ll get hacked. Update your software.
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 post Episode 145: Read the whole entry. »
I mean, there are so many positive stories about people who are hacking for a living and doing good things because of it. Vamosi: Within InfoSec there's an informal use of AppSec as well. Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.
Manages permissions. Maintained by infosec teams. Manages identifying information. Also Read: Protecting Against Solorigate TTPS: SolarWinds Hack Defenses. Also Read: Best PasswordManagement Software & Tools. The below table touches on the critical differences: Authorization (OAuth).
Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the passwordmanager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.
Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the passwordmanager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.
Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. 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. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.
The service was obviously rather popular because within days the tech (and mainstream) headlines were proclaiming that thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts were already for sale on hacking forums. There's a fundamental flaw in the logic which I summarised as follows: If the site generates a password, how do you store it?
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