ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

As a journalist, I, of course, had experienced all of the relevant domains, but my knowledge in each was only so deep. Vamosi: Since 1989, the SANS Institute has attracted some of the best infosec talent in the world to teach their courses. A colleague of mine used to travel around to sans training conferences across the country.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Military IT Security 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Of course, I do the update, but then later I have to go back to my privacy settings to see what Microsoft changed. Who else has access to something that's, that's not uncommon, interviewed that, for example, someone still had someone share Facebook passwords. That would be something to consider. But in general, I would rule it out.

Passwords 52

Passwords Access IoT IT 52

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. Because it's a plain text query, the site your client it querying is immediately observable by anyone sitting on the connection.

Privacy 143

Privacy Phishing Encryption Security 143

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

Cybersecurity 121

Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 121

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000.

IT 40

IT Sales Security Honeypots 40

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Passwords IT Mining 111

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

Of course, I'd considered all that before making the decision to go down this path, but nothing could prepare me for the actual emotions felt once I was eyeball-deep in the M&A process. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post.

IT 136

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