The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. No one liked the use case where you typed in a password from a hardware dongle into your mobile application. LaSala: When mobile fraud first started, hackers tried to steal as many usernames and passwords as they could. But right now, crypto mining is where the money is. LW: Such as?

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Both these announcements are being made at a time where Pwned Passwords is seeing unprecedented growth: Getting closer and closer to the 1B requests a month mark for @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords. Speaking of natural fits, Pwned Passwords is perfect for this model and that's why we're starting here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). Of course, once the attacker has accomplished their goal or gotten enough money, they can abandon that identity. Lots of data, of course! First, you need sufficient and accurate data to establish the baseline.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). That's not unprecedented, but this is: password: "$2y$10$B0EhY/bQsa5zUYXQ6J.NkunGvUfYeVOH8JM1nZwHyLPBagbVzpEM2", No way! Is that genuinely a bcrypt hash of my own password?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I wrote a free course for Varonis on GDPR earlier this year and I'm going to be referring to points from there quite a bit in this blog post. I won't go deep into all that here because I explain it in the aforementioned course, but let me sum it up in an easily consumable way: When you give your data to a cat forum, you still own it.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Of course, not everyone earns hundreds of thousands of dollars by probing away at other people's systems. across the internet.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. 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. It's worth everyone understanding its role.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. 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. It's worth everyone understanding its role.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. 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. It's worth everyone understanding its role.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. No, of course we shouldn't trust it and it's a perfect example of where a positive visual indicator is, in fact, misleading. But the option does not exist.

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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%

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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.

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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. Don't share your phone, don't share your password with your partner.

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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.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 13, 2013

In fact, overall the text input system of the Nexus is so much better than the iPhone, it makes me wonder what’s wrong with Apple – until, of course, I start to think more broadly about the two companies, and it becomes far clearer. The Nexus 4 is still in limited release, and when I got mine, protective cases were backlogged.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was most interesting, of course, were the computer connections. So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind. Léveillé: So in the case of Kobalos, there was a password that was required to authenticate. But so we don't try to authenticate with default passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

If you have an efficient function that executes quickly it can be extremely cost effective as I recently demonstrated with the Pwned Passwords figures : So here's the hard facts - I'm dipping into my pocket every week to the tune of. for you guys to do 54M searches against a repository of half a billion passwords ??

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

Because of that, you know that the G pack that happened, you know, in 2016 So back when you were going to take my course that hack affected. Nothing was the same that the way the servers connected with the password, all of that stuff was completely different. One of the suppliers, which was a company called Harmon.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

And, of course, the user agent requirement was easily circumvented as I expected it would be and I simply started seeing randomised strings in the UA. Same too for Pwned Passwords - there's absolutely zero impact on that service. Not doing so may result in the request being blocked.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Of course, over time, law enforcement would find ways to intercept the administration of these site, take them over, and arrest their owners. VAMOSI: Let’s start with the definition of the dark web as opposed to the web we use everyday, either password-protected or open. SCHWARTZ : Of course, cybercrime.

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