Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. Of course, there are many more possibilities.”. Netlab researchers infected more than 1.5

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. These are not uncommon risks.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2018

AVTech is one of the world’s leading CCTV manufacturers, it is the largest public-listed company in the Taiwan surveillance industry. The security expert Ankit Anubhav who discovered the Death botnet revealed that outdated firmware versions expose the passwords of the AVTech device in cleartext.

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

This one seems obvious – yet the AA got into all sorts of problems last year when thousands of its members received an email telling them that their passwords had been changed. The AA responded by tweeting : “We’re aware an email has been sent to members re password change Please don’t ring the number in the email.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

We offer a variety of resources to help understand and mitigate threats, from training courses and consultancy services to free guides. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Your company stakeholders — especially the employees — should know the strategies your security team is using to prevent data breaches, and they should know simple ways they can help, like password protection and not clicking on malicious links or files or falling for phishing attacks. This varies between organizations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. Of course, once the attacker has accomplished their goal or gotten enough money, they can abandon that identity. Lots of data, of course! Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern?

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website. Which security keys count as “modern”?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. Patches were rushed out , but many. caused problems of their own.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million customers , most of them American, was compromised in the 2017 data breach – including their names, dates of birth, passwords, and driving licence and financial details. In total, the personal information of some 147.9 No flights were disrupted as a result of the incident, nor were safety or security systems put at risk.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? Was there a misconfiguration?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? Was there a misconfiguration?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? Was there a misconfiguration?

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Johnson, who had been made redundant by the paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific after 15 years’ service, was able to use login credentials that remained valid. The database also contained up to 400 files with plaintext passwords and secret keys, as well as the source code for the software. million (about £900,000) in damages.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5 Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Vauxhall Motors database with 5.5

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer. Vamosi: The exact number of these ECUs varies depending on the price of the car or the needs of the manufacturer.

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Imperial Violet

JULY 22, 2023

Introduction Over more than a decade, a handful of standards have developed into passkeys—a plausible replacement for passwords. A password is the most common example of such a secret. But U2F was focused on user authentication, while cookies identify computers, so U2F was primarily trying to augment passwords.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Below is a summary of California’s new law and some takeaways for IoT device manufacturers as they move toward January 1, 2020 compliance. The new law addresses the security obligations of “manufacturers” of connected devices. c)) The new law therefore impacts manufacturers outside of California. b)(1)-(2)).

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Below is a summary of California’s new law and some takeaways for IoT device manufacturers as they move toward January 1, 2020 compliance. The new law addresses the security obligations of “manufacturers” of connected devices. c)) The new law therefore impacts manufacturers outside of California. b)(1)-(2)).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. None the less, the experience of most people is that passwords remain a central, albeit frustrating, feature of their online lives. Lastly, many security guides advocate for the use of password managers. Introduction.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

And so, maybe that's why we see low participation in CE and CS courses. Or course the organization isn’t just for black girls, it’s for everyone, but the name drives home the inclusive nature of the organization. Oil and gas, manufacturing plants and healthcare system. And they also work with other organizations.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” The other, increasingly common reason, he said, is of course ransomware attacks on the business side of water utilities. And yet, there have been precious few known incidents of malicious hackers abusing this access to disrupt these complex systems. “But even then you generally don’t get to hear the details of the attack.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course we can also use a SOP8 Clip to dump it. Artifacts extracted from the FW analysis: Smartlock Passwords & User’s Logs. And therefore sure that is forensically acceptable as evidence. And here the results of the dump and some initial Forensics analysis of it. As you see plenty of artifacts left-over by the attacker.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Was it the device manufacturer who had provided products with easy to guess default passwords, the consumers who bought these devices and didn’t think (or simply weren’t aware enough of the risks) to change those passwords or was it the network infrastructure provider that appeared not to have implemented measures to respond to such a DDoS attack?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

MAC address information includes manufacturers, which can be very useful to identify printers, routers, or even video game consoles connected to the network. However, for endpoints and servers, the MAC address will usually only return the manufacturer of the network card, and other commands will need to be used to obtain more information.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Of course our guest on this episode, he already knew all that. Van Norman: industrial control systems are the systems that every industry is going to use from your manufacturing to your chemical, your food and beverage, your power plants. Right now, you think about shipping a manufacturing company, making widget pallets.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Again, I should say, most abuse is far more mundane that it's just like stock where most abuse is far more mundane, even if it seems technical it's often not particularly technical, but the IoT abuse does happen and it's something that we should be aware of, and I think IoT manufacturers should be aware of. There are legitimate apps for that.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. Use strong passwords. Of course, the real threat of an APT comes from their ability to access and steal data from users and from the network. The action could be as simple as a password reset or as comprehensive as replacing a device in its entirety. Strong Access Control for Users.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Of course it can! HIBP also implements the includeSubdomains and preload keywords which ensures that HSTS is cascaded down to every subdomain of the site and is implemented in every browser when it ships from the manufacturer (more on both of those in my post on HSTS ). Let them paste passwords! Why do websites do this?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

NOBELIUM, a group of Russia-based hackers, gained access to multiple enterprises through software code, stolen passwords, compromised on-premises servers, and minted SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language) tokens. Persistent attacks pose a particular threat to critical infrastructure and manufacturing.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 24, 2020

First it was my trusty Electro-Voice RE320 from 5 years ago that saw me through so many Pluralsight courses, webcasts, interviews, etc. But to maximise the awesome I needed both screen types to come from the same manufacturer and look like they're from the same family. No sign of life whatsoever.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Learn about the real risks of weak passwords, why password management is key to building a strong security culture, and our best advice on how to protect your users and your organization. This, of course, doesn't mean if you're not in that specific demographic you're off the hook; nothing could be further from the truth.

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