Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For example, another important default setting in LastPass is the number of “iterations,” or how many times your master password is run through the company’s encryption routines. By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

But, this case – where an attorney sought sanctions against another for hanging up on him – is a unique example of lack of cooperation: Court Denies Sanction Request for Attorney Who Hung Up on Opposing Counsel One Time : In Ewing v. 2013: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Here they are: 2018: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For example, the researchers said their methodology identified a recent multi-million dollar crypto heist victim as an employee at Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis firm that works closely with law enforcement agencies to help track down cybercriminals and money launderers. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. Let me illustrate by example: in January this year, I loaded a rather large breach into HIBP: New scraped data: Twitter had over 200M accounts scraped from a vulnerable API in 2021. Need more resources?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

The unflattering profile was laid out in a series of documents tied to a lawsuit lodged by Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. For example, once at a crowded lounge, he said: ‘Chris, I have more money than all of the people here tonight.'”

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. Just over 2 years ago, my wife (Kylie) had spinal surgery.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. Here’s a really common example. Vamosi: Two things here. One, a race condition is literally that -- a race. They both control the same light.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. Here’s a really common example. Vamosi: Two things here. One, a race condition is literally that -- a race. They both control the same light.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. Here’s a really common example. Vamosi: Two things here. One, a race condition is literally that -- a race. They both control the same light.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. I was always really hesitant to do this, but when 90% of the API traffic was suddenly coming from a country in West Africa, for example, that was a pretty quick win.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. HIBP's brand is intrinsically tied to mine and at present, it needs me to go along with it. Credential stuffing, for example, is a massive problem right now and it only exists due to password reuse. I'll remain a part of HIBP.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

2018 showed us plenty of examples of business leadership along the lines of what I predicted. Lots of great companies did great things – Salesforce, a leader in corporate responsibility, even hired a friend of mine to be Chief Ethics Officer. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Prediction #10: Business leads.

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