eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Ransomware Passwords Data breaches Access 86

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. Read next: Best Incident Response Tools and Software.

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Cloud Passwords IoT Honeypots 124

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And then eventually, you come out with a timeline of the events of what's happened. They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. So seems relatively benign, but one thing a lot of people don't realize is that they have a detection for crypto mining and they'll just destroy the system. CAMPBELL: Yeah, exactly.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Access IT 40

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.

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Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 94

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

And they, they just didn't password protect something as simple as that, that they, if they had added a password, it would have made that a little bit more difficult honestly impossible but more difficult to to propagate that particular bug. This interview was actually recorded just before that event. We have a CTF.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Computer and Electronics Communications Access 52

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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Passwords IT Mining Authentication 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And that's when we had this kind of great freeze event in Texas where they lost power and all this stuff. So this is sometimes used to figure out passwords and credit card details as they're going through any point of sale. It's mine. The next episode of the hacker mine is all about hacking is not a crime.

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Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics IT Communications 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. And so we were basically you know, we started doing enterprise monitoring packet captures, you know, decryption, replaying all the events, incident response, all the assessment work, that it was a playground, you know, I got to do everything.

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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!

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Data breaches Passwords IT Mining 111

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

to customers to noteworthy events since conception to a slide on "Industry Tailwinds" talking about how big cyber is becoming (that hurt a little bit to put my name on, so much cyber.). We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post. I spoke at CERN.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

"It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed. If the alleged breach has taken place as described, your passwords have not been revealed." If your password is "maga2020!" " This is misleading and ignores the simplicity of hash cracking. " (or similar), it has been revealed.

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Passwords Data breaches Mining Risk 145