Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us stuck inside and struggling to find ways to remain productive, now might be the perfect time to take an online cyber security training course. Let’s take a look at five of the best online courses for cyber security. Certified Cyber Security Foundation Training Course.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The tsunami of passwords that exist across every aspect of our digital life means that there’s a thriving underground industry of cyber-criminals trying to get at them. This time passwords were lightly protected by the 1970s-era DES algorithm. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that ‘123456’ is still the most hacked password. Security experts at the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analyzed the 100,000 most-commonly re-occurring breached passwords using data from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It's another Pluralsight course! It's another "Play by Play" course which means it's Lars and I sitting there having a conversation like this: We choose to talk about IoT because frankly, it's fascinating. Risks which expose the network ( LIFX leaked the wifi password ). These Play by Play courses are easy watching.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? The standards on password usage are changing. Well, let me share some good news. Like this: TxRecBi#1! Texas Record Blog Is Number One!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It only takes one password to fall into the wrong hands for cyber criminals to be able to access your systems and networks and cause harm. Sharing passwords often occurs because team members trust one another and share the workload, but what would happen if one of those employees turned rogue?

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Troy Hunt

MAY 24, 2018

That's oversimplifying things, of course, but to me that's always been a cornerstone of why bug bounties make so much sense: they change the ROI of bugs such that it incentivises people of all ethical positions to disclose them to the organisation involved rather than run amuck with them.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of cyber criminals’ favourite ways of hacking organisations is through brute-force or ‘password spraying’ attacks, which bombard targets with login attempts using lists of common passwords. million people in the UK use ‘123456’ as their password. million are securing their accounts with ‘password’ and 3.8

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Data leaks from years ago are still being used today to compromise accounts, telling us that many people don’t change their password after a breach, or even at some regular frequency. This is from a direct perspective – to enable a supply chain attack, for example – but also because of poor password habits.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

. — rely on that number for password resets. From there, the bad guys can reset the password of any account to which that mobile number is tied, and of course intercept any one-time tokens sent to that number for the purposes of multi-factor authentication. It’s time we stopped letting everyone treat them that way.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 19, 2023

The attackers might also have had access to Norton Password Manager users’ private vault data, which contains stored passwords for other online accounts. However, we strongly believe that an unauthorized third party knows and has utilized your username and password for your account,” NortonLifeLock said.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

Thought experiment story of someone of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything: But to get into my cloud, I need my password and 2FA. To get my passwords, I need my 2FA. To get my 2FA, I need my passwords. Of course, if I can wangle my way past security, an evil-doer could also do so.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

An advert is currently running in which a man gets his password hacked because, the ad implies, he wasn’t using a VPN (virtual private network). The man’s password? Sooner rather than later, someone will guess your password and stumble into a wealth of sensitive information. Are we all so useless? Security vs convenience.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

The National Safety Council leaked thousands of emails and passwords of their members, including companies such as NASA and Tesla. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

The online education portal EduCBA discloses a data breach and is resetting customers’ passwords in response to the incident. Online education website EduCBA discloses a data breach, it has started notifying customers that in response to the incident it is resetting their passwords. Source BleepingComputer.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. 000002 cents per password). Please don’t do that.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 17, 2018

Here's another one which invoked a similar set of GDPR-related commentary: New breach: South African website ViewFines had 934k records breached this month including 778k unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and plain text passwords. 59% were already in @haveibeenpwned. What does common sense tell you?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The information stored in a Canon printer depends on the specific model, however, almost any model stores the network SSID, the password, network type (WPA3, WEP, etc.), Set up strong authentication mechanisms, such as complex passwords or use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for printer access. MAC address, and IP address.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Getting access required a password, so his solution was to steal the passwords from those who’d paid for them. Not that de Guzman regarded this as stealing: He argued that the password holder would get no less access as a result of having their password unknowingly “shared.”

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Of course they can turn synching off, but it’s too late. Edge urges users to store passwords, ID numbers, and even passport numbers, all of which get uploaded to Microsoft by default when synch is enabled. Has this happened to anyone else, or was this user error of some sort? If this is real, can some reporter write about it?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. Next time you login to SitePoint you will need to create a new password.”

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Troy Hunt

MAY 17, 2018

It's a new Pluralsight course! Yes, I know I said that yesterday too , but this is a new new Pluralsight course and it's the second part in our series on Creating a Security-centric Culture. This course looks at how shadow IT is changing, what it means in a cloud era and what practices we can apply to address it.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Someone in the UK is stealing smartphones and credit cards from people who have stored them in gym lockers, and is using the two items in combination to commit fraud: Phones, of course, can be made inaccessible with the use of passwords and face or fingerprint unlocking. And bank cards can be stopped.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Weak passwords. Hackers can crack passwords in a variety of ways: Dictionary attacks : Hackers download a text file containing a list of words (usually from a dictionary) into a cracking application, and run it against user accounts located by the application. Rainbow tables : Most modern systems store passwords in a hash.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise. One of the ways it does that is by warning people about security threats when they enter their Windows password into websites and documents.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2023

Vishing attempts to con potential victims into surrendering personal information such as passwords, card details and PINs, which can be used for identity theft. However, that software itself contains malware – typically a keylogger that tracks everything that the user types on their machine, such as passwords and other sensitive information.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2020

and yet stayed the same) Apparently, "red" Texans don't like being told their password is crap (and other ridiculous insights) Also on stupid emails, apparently I'm gonna be in trouble with the law - today (nothing further yet, but of course I'll share any updates ??) (that's the launch blog post, how things have changed.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

“Through the course of collaboration with trusted third parties, SonicWall has been made aware of threat actors actively targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running unpatched and end-of-life (EOL) 8.x immediately Reset passwords Enable MFA. continues the alert. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed away in early 2023 leaving behind a cryptographic mystery, some conspiracy theories, and an historical password cracking challenge. So there’s a $12K prize to recover the hash seeds.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2023

This database is going to be used by hackers, political hacktivists and of course governments to harm our privacy even further,” he said. Users should be especially vigilant if they receive an email from Twitter advising them to change their password in light of this incident. Where did the data come from?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Alrighty, quickie intro before I rush off to hit the tennis court, catch up with old friends, onto the wake park before BBQ and, of course, ??. Stop breached & shared passwords in real-time with retroactive scanning and auto-remediation. Get your free AD audit today.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many of them contain malicious attachments that that install malware and, in some specific cases, keyloggers, which can be used to steal the victim’s data, including usernames and passwords. This prevents criminal hackers from taking control of your account with only your username and password. Can you spot a scam?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets. Fortifications, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password managers, have come along over the past decade or so to keep password abuse in check.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

However, the code is actually part of Facebook’s password reset mechanism. If the victim shares the code, the fraudster can use it change the victim’s password and take control of their account. This will send the one-time password to the victim’s account.

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