Google Stored G Suite Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
Threatpost
MAY 22, 2019
Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.
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WIRED Threat Level
MAY 21, 2019
On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugsāone of which lasted 14 years.
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The Last Watchdog
MARCH 29, 2022
Log4j is the latest, greatest vulnerability to demonstrate just how tenuous the security of modern networks has become. By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. Related: The exposures created by API profileration.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
The Final FFIEC Guidance has been issued and its main intent is to reinforce the 2005 Guidance's risk management framework and update the Agencies' expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment.
Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2021
April 2021 Security Patch Day includes 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes, one of them fixes a critical issue in SAP Commerce. SAP Security Note #3040210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.9 SAP Security Note #3040210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.9
Krebs on Security
JUNE 22, 2022
Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia. ” the post enthuses.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Microsoft experts believe that threat actors behind a malicious campaign aimed at Indian critical infrastructure earlier this year have exploited security flaws in a now-discontinued web server called Boa. The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 22, 2021
Network security is in the throes of a metamorphosis. Advanced technologies and fresh security frameworks are being implemented to deter cyber attacks out at the services edge, where all the action is. Related: Automating security-by-design in SecOps. This means Security Operations Centers are in a transition.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 23, 2021
But this also opens up a sprawling array of fresh security gaps that threat actors are proactively probing and exploiting. Thereās a glut of innovative security solutions, to be sure, and no shortage of security frameworks designed to help companies mitigate cyber risks. However, this is overkill for many, if not most, SMBs.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident. The hackers accessed company file servers that contained information about current and former employees from 2005 to 2020 and their beneficiaries and dependents. ” reads the statement. ” reads the statement.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 25, 2023
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security may have exposed the data of 820K customers. Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers. ” reads the notice of data breach. ” concludes the notice.
Security Affairs
MAY 31, 2021
A security researcher discovered a bug in PatchGuard Windows security feature that can allow loading unsigned malicious code into the Windows kernel. The feature was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
Security Affairs
MARCH 27, 2022
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 66 new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 15 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ?. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Then, in 2005 the clever people at the National Retail Federation decided that an online frenzy of shopping was needed the Monday after Thanksgiving. People arrived at the shops the night before waiting in line for the doors to open. We know this Monday as Cyber Monday.
Security Affairs
JUNE 13, 2023
The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. In January, Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach , the company reported that the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. Web development 101, or an essential requirement, is to keep crucial.env files secure, as they often contain sensitive information that could be used to compromise services or applications. Security disclosure was first reported in March.
Security Affairs
MAY 3, 2023
The platform has been active since 2005, according to the DoJ, it generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Authorities dismantled the Try2Check platform, a Card-Checking platform that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. DoJ charged the Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov with running the Card-Checking services.
Krebs on Security
MAY 4, 2023
Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 28, 2022
Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google. ru’s original WHOIS records, which shows it was assigned in 2005 to a “private person” who used the email address lycefer@gmail.com. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru,
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 Hawke had reportedly bragged about the money he earned from spam, but told friends he didn’t trust banks and decided to convert his earnings into gold and platinum bars. That sparked rumors that he had possibly buried his ill-gotten gains on his parents’ Massachusetts property.
Security Affairs
APRIL 3, 2021
US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. Thompson for the security breach. “Recently, Capital One re-examined the files that were impacted by the 2019 data security incident using new and more advanced tools.
Adam Levin
MAY 24, 2019
Google announced a glitch that stored unencrypted passwords belonging to several business customers, a situation that had been exploitable since 2005. We will continue with our security audits to ensure this is an isolated incident,ā announced the blog.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 7, 2019
The global cybersecurity community is keenly aware of these developments and earnest discussions are underway about how to deal with the attendant security exposures. Initially introduced in 2005, CVSS is a framework for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities in software. And what needs to be improved?
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities.
Security Affairs
MARCH 28, 2023
Latitude reported the security breach to the Australian Federal Police. “We are well advanced in what has been a thorough, forensic investigation of our systems, supported by external cyber security specialists.” million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach.
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. I had a chance to interview Brian Trzupek , DigiCertās senior vice president of emerging markets products, at the companyās Security Summit 2020 in San Diego recently. Iāll keep watch.
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2020
It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. The incident was confirmed by Spanish media and security firms, including threat intelligence company Cyble. Pierluigi Paganini.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. com , which promised customers the ability to quickly tell whether a given Internet address is flagged by any security companies as malicious or spammy.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.
The Security Ledger
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The post Episode 229: BugCrowdās Casey Ellis On Whatās Hot In Bug Hunting appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Programs like iDefense Labs Vulnerability Contributor Program (VCP) (launched in 2002) and TippingPointās Zero Day Initiative (2005) were accused -at the time- of incentivizing the work of criminals and bad actors. .
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 9, 2020
Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — have been around since 2005, but their time may have come at last. Exabeam is a successful security vendor in the SIEM space. SIEMs have to be able to help the security analysts see and monitor different use cases like OT.ā
Security Affairs
JULY 20, 2021
Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. HP has published a security advisory ( HPSBPI03724 ) that includes the list of impacted printer models. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is warning investors of potential investment scams related to Hurricane Ida. ” continues the SEC.
Adapture
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
About Smartsheet Since its founding in 2005, Smartsheet enables individuals and teams to become high achievers by creating innovative work management solutions, mobilizing a passionate and diverse global team, and redefining the possibilities of work management, empowering people to do amazing things.
The Security Ledger
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In this Spotlight Security Ledger podcast, Chris Petersen, the CEO and founder of RADICL, talks about his company's mission to protect small and midsized businesses serving the defense industrial base, which are increasingly in the cross-hairs of sophisticated, nation-state actors. Read the whole entry. » Sickened by Software?
Security Affairs
MAY 2, 2019
The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. In 2005 the company released the security note 8218752 and in 2009 released the security note 14080813 containing instructions on how to properly configure the access list for Gateway.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 28, 2023
Related: Up-skilling workers to boost security Related Although you were born with an agile and analytical mind, you have very limited financial resources and few, if any, connections that can open doors to your future ambitions. Over my career, I have created three non-profits and two SaaS for profits, one of which I sold in 2005.
Krebs on Security
JULY 25, 2023
Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. .” WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT? DomainTools says myiptest[.]com com, such as abuseipdb[.]com
Security Affairs
APRIL 19, 2020
” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. The post Popular Webkinz World online children’s game hacked, 23M credentials leaked appeared first on Security Affairs. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.”
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
“Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in an OMEN Gaming Hub SDK package which may allow escalation of privilege and/or denial of service. ” reads the security advisory published by HP. Among the obvious abuses of such vulnerabilities are that they could be used to bypass security products.”
Security Affairs
JULY 30, 2019
I commend our law enforcement partners who are doing all they can to determine the status of the data and secure it.” The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. Attorney Moran. āI
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Weāve taken the forums offline until we can go over them and make sure they’re secure. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 1, 2023
Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? Fetisov from Moscow.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Security experts from IBM are targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602 flaws, aka Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 , to install a backdoor on the infected systems and tack full control of the hosted platforms. Security Affairs – Drupal, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.
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