The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was caught storing plaintext passwords in logfiles two years ago. It is highly unlikely that Biden or Obama run their Twitter accounts – they have operatives to do that, so probably not much private gold to be mined at that level. A major portion of password attacks over the last few years have involved attacks against APIs.

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Passwords Phishing Authentication Access 259

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Authentication: The identities of the sender and receiver—as well as the origin and destination of the information—are confirmed. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken. are kept secure.

Encryption 83

Encryption Passwords Authentication Communications 83

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. Amongst those verified domain searches are government departments and they too are enormously varied; local councils, legal and health services, telecoms and infrastructure etc.

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Government Passwords Data breaches Authentication 74

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 14 February 2019. However, according to TechCrunch, several users “couldn’t explain how their passwords — unique to OkCupid and not used on any other app or site — were inexplicably obtained”. Here are this week’s stories. It’s not available on OkCupid.

Data breaches 75

Data breaches Authentication Passwords Data migration 75

Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Authentication Communications Government Encryption 126

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88

Energy and Utilities 117

Energy and Utilities Phishing Blockchain Cybersecurity 117

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

Data breaches 112

Data breaches Passwords Risk Personal data 112

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Encryption 145

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. Key Differentiators.

Cloud 130

Cloud Passwords IoT Honeypots 130

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance.

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Privacy Retail Authentication Artificial Intelligence 157

KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Government. KnowBe4 Mobile Learner App - Users can now train anytime, anywhere!

Phishing 78

Phishing Security awareness Passwords Computer and Electronics 78

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences. With DevOps and API advances steamrolling forward, no one has thought to establish the practice of requiring passwords to authenticate users at the API level.

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Digital transformation Data breaches Cloud Mining 140

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email addresses are still the main way we authenticate ourselves to do business online, and because of that email as a category represents an extremely weak link in our collective cybersecurity. Domain names were initially intended as a means of identifying remote academic, military, and government locations.

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IT Communications Phishing Cybersecurity 45

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

How HIBP runs across the various Azure services, the Cloudflare dependencies, how I recover if things go wrong and then how that's managed across different autonomous parts of the project such as the HIBP website, the Pwned Passwords service etc etc. Collectively, we agreed to put pens down. I loaded 77 new data breaches comprising of 1.7B

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IT Mining Sales Data breaches 135