Troy Hunt

JUNE 26, 2020

All that, the usual data breach stuff and more in this week's update. Amidst all that, I've well and truly gone down the IoT rabbit hole with all sorts of bits now connected through Home Assistant (just understanding the basics of this is actually one of those draft blog posts I mentioned).

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Mining Data breaches IoT Passwords 71

IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm has revealed few details either publicly or to its supply chain, with some partners saying they only heard about the incident via text message and received no further updates. According to IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report , the average detection time is 197 days. It was, in fact, ransomware. So far, so good.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2019

The reboot was caused by watchdog timer since the device was overloaded and stopped responding” The Latvian vendor already released security updates for the RouterOS that addressed the flaw (CVE-2018-19299), but according to the experts, some of the affected devices continue to be vulnerable. RouterOS v6.45beta23 and RouterOS v6.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

We are continuing to keep the relevant authorities updated.”. Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study found that the mean dwell time of a data security incident – that is, the average period between its occurrence and identification – is now 197 days. The mean time to contain an incident is 69 days.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

If the agent is already registered to C2 this command acts like a ping, it updates basic informations to the corresponding “agent” folder. A powershell Agent as been leaked on PasteBin o August 2018 ( take a look here ) by an anonymous user and seen, since today, from very few people (197 so far). (Source: MISP Project ).

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