Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The organisation involved may have contacted you and advised your password was exposed but fortunately, they encrypted it. Ah, yes, but it wasn't encrypted it was hashed and therein lies a key difference: Saying that passwords are “encrypted” over and over again doesn’t make it so. But you should change it anyway.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

A previously unknown threat actor released config files and VPN passwords for Fortinet FortiGate devices on a popular cybercrime forum. A previously unknown threat actor named Belsen Group published configuration files and VPN passwords for over 15,000 Fortinet FortiGate appliances. “2025 will be a fortunate year for the world.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Since the earliest incidents of computer break-ins, experts have maintained that making the internet a safe place is going to be an uphill battle. The post Ground Rule of Cyber Hygiene: Keep Your Password Policy Up to Date appeared first on Security Boulevard. Their reasons, while largely technical, also encompass human complacency.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Option 2: Open PowerShell and load it directly from the internet. Username domainuser -Password password Note: I’ve tried to provide time stamps and output during run-time, so you know what it’s doing. Secrets Extraction from Configuration Files “Cool, I like the interesting files thing, but could you parse the passwords for me?”

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We've also added 244M passwords we've never seen before to Pwned Passwords and updated the counts against another 199M that were already in there. The file in the image above contained over 36 million rows of data consisting of website URLs and the email addresses and passwords entered into them.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

More Americans than ever are working remotely and seeking out entertainment online, and this increase of internet activity has fueled a dramatic spike in cybercrime. Until biometrics or a quantum solution change our everyday approach to encryption, passwords remain our first line of defense against data breaches, hackers, and thieves.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. com — is different from the one I saw in late December, but it was hosted at the same Internet address as officesuited[.]com

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

De Guzman was poor, and internet access was expensive. Getting access required a password, so his solution was to steal the passwords from those who’d paid for them. ” (Of course, his logic conveniently ignored the fact that the internet access provider would have to serve two people for the price of one.).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Your internet account passwords are probably among the most guarded pieces of information you retain in your brain. With everything that has recently migrated to the digital realm, a secure password functions as the deadbolt to your private data.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. Don’t reuse passwords. Protect your PC.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Satnam Narang , senior staff research engineer at Tenable , says the danger with stolen NTLM hashes is that they enable so-called “pass-the-hash” attacks, which let an attacker masquerade as a legitimate user without ever having to log in or know the user’s password.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 24, 2021

This post is an attempt to create an easy-to-use security model for the average internet user. Basically, how secure is someone’s current behavior with respect to passwords and authentication, and what can they do to improve? The Real Internet of Things: Details and Examples. How to use this model. Any improvement is good.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library best known for its Wayback Machine, has disclosed a major data breach affecting over 31 million users.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

The internet is filled with falsehoods. Use a different password for every account. If you get your username and password stolen on one account you dont want scammers to be able to use it on another. Password managers help you create complex passwords, and they remember them for you.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

Those who fall for the scam are asked to provide payment card data, and eventually will be asked to supply a one-time password sent via SMS or a mobile authentication app. Reports of similar SMS phishing attacks against customers of other U.S. state-run toll facilities surfaced around the same time as the MassDOT alert.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, when improperly configured or left exposed to the internet, HMIs become prime targets for cyberattacks. According to Casey Ellis, Founder and Advisor at Bugcrowd, safety-critical control systems like HMIs "should never be on the Internet." Exposing HMI systems to the Internet can have serious consequences," Raju explains.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Hackers are using internet-connected home devices to livestream “swatting” attacks, according to the FBI. In a public service announcement issued December 29, the FBI warned that “offenders have been using stolen e-mail passwords to access smart devices with cameras and voice capabilities and carry out swatting attacks.”.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website. The phishing kits used for these campaigns featured a hidden Telegram instant message bot that forwarded any submitted credentials in real-time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. Free S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A. million IBAN details.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Use unique, strong passwords, and store them in a password manager. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. billion passwords from various internet data leaks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 24, 2021

This post is an attempt to create an easy-to-use security model for the average internet user. Basically, how secure is someone’s current behavior with respect to passwords and authentication, and how can they improve? People like moving up rankings, so let’s use that! How to use this model. Any improvement is good.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

The core Manipulaters product is Heartsender , a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365 , Yahoo , AOL , Intuit , iCloud and ID.me , to name a few. “Presumably, these buyers also include Dutch nationals.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. Booking.com said it now requires 2FA , which forces partners to provide a one-time passcode from a mobile authentication app (Pulse) in addition to a username and password.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2024

The post Brits Ban Default Passwords — and More IoT Stupidity appeared first on Security Boulevard. Nice Cup of IoTea? The UK’s Product Security and Tele­comm­uni­cations Infra­struc­ture Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

Other passwords and session tokens that could allow the scammers to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Change all your passwords and do this using a clean, trusted device. Report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Financial information, like your banking credentials and crypto wallets. Email addresses.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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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. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. Ditto for any other forum where Sergey used the same email address or password.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Internet security expert and educator Troy Hunt disclosed this week that he had been hit by one of the oldestand most provenscams in the online world: A phishing attack. Hunt also noticed that, when he tried to log into his Mailchimp account by following the phishing emails link, his password manager did not auto-fill his account details.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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