Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2023

No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication. No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

This is largely caused by two outlier events: Misconfigured Google Firebase instances , exposing 124,605,664 records across 916 misconfigured websites. To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Internationally, there is no doubt that this predominantly serves to facilitate the detection and blocking of topics sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party, such as the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square. Password leaks are commonplace. Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon has also won hackathon events in the UK and internationally, and is accredited for multiple bug bounties. 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.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. This year’s event focuses on phishing and ransomware – two of the biggest threats that organisations currently face. Getting involved. How IT Governance can help.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Note: It is strongly recommended that organizations conduct domain-wide password resets and double Kerberos TGT password resets if any indication is found that the NTDS.dit file was compromised. wevtutil.exe A standard Windows Event Utility tool used to view event logs. AnyDesk also supports remote file transfer.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

CYBERCRIMINALS LAUNCHED “LEAKSMAS” EVENT IN THE DARK WEB EXPOSING MASSIVE VOLUMES OF LEAKED PII AND COMPROMISED DATA Leaksmas: On Christmas Eve, multiple threat actors released substantial data leaks, Resecurity experts reported. These are the Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories … enjoy it. TWO SPYWARE SENDING DATA OF MORE THAN 1.5M

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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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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Spoutible incident just has so many interesting aspects to it: loads of data that should never be returned publicly, awesome response time to the disclosure, lacklustre transparency in their disclosure, some really fundamental misunderstands about hashing algorithms and a controversy-laden past if you read back over events of the last year.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Implement strong password policies and multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access. Encrypt sensitive data and maintain regular, secure backups to ensure data integrity and availability, even in the event of system failures or cyber attacks. Robust access control. Comprehensive monitoring. Backup strategies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Frebniis operates by injecting code into the memory of the iisfreb.dll which is used by the IIS feature Failed Request Event Buffering (FREB) for troubleshooting failed requests. The malicious code parses all received HTTP POST requests for /logon.aspx or /default.aspx along with a parameter password set to ‘7ux4398!’.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This new version of the proposed regulation deletes the previous requirements for Class A companies to conduct weekly vulnerability scans, as well as the requirement to use password vaulting for privileged access. Note that covered entities would have 18 months to implement this password-blocking requirement.)

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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Troy Hunt

MAY 14, 2022

Geez it was nice to not only be back at an event, but out there socialising and attending all the related things that tend to go along with it. A short one this week as the previous 7 days disappeared with AusCERT and other commitments. Detect suspicious behavior and strengthen your Salesforce security posture.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Turla operators used the scripts to exfiltrate keys used to secure the password databases of popular password management software. The malware uses Windows events for synchronization, with the first primary malware thread initiated in the DLL’s ServiceMain function.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

(“Carnival”), the world’s largest cruise-ship operator, for violations of the Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in connection with four cybersecurity events between 2019 and 2021, including two ransomware events. . NYDFS also found that Carnival had failed to implement basic protocols to prevent data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Someone has transferred almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet to another wallet. I have the wallet, @Google hook me up with a quantum computer please.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Use strong passwords, 2FA. The security of your Bitcoin wallet is mostly dependent on the strength of your passwords. Use uppercase, lowercase, digits, special characters, and a combination of them to create strong, one-of-a-kind passwords. Keep your name and birthday away from utilizing information that might be easily guessed.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 5, 2023

The proposed Amendment would still require covered entities to comply with a host of new access control obligations concerning privileged accounts, and notify NYDFS within 72 hours upon becoming aware of a cybersecurity event where an unauthorized user has gained access to a privileged account.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root). As the world watches the events in Ukraine, cyber incursions by hostile actors will continue across the globe.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2022

" Check that out and a whole heap more in this week's video below 👇 References As travel gradually resumes, there are more events you can now catch me at (stay tuned for one in Tasmania in July too) It was 7 years ago today I left a 14 year career at Pfizer. (.and and never once looked back!) Try it free!

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Keys, such as strong passwords, unique codes, or biometric scans, can be given to trusted individuals to access your resources from a distance. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security.

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Enterprise Software Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

The application will include an authentication module and an event module. Logged-in users will be able to view the events associated with their account, while users with the Administrator role can create, update, and delete events. Project Setup First, we need to set up our project. Let’s start with User model.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Threat actors conducted spear-phishing attacks, using files related to current events as bait, such as the Taiwanese presidential election that took place in January 2024. The spear-phishing emails sent by the threat actors include a Google Drive link that hosts a password-protected archive file, which will download DOPLUGS malware.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

This is a security mechanism that requires people to enter a second piece of information in addition to a password in order to log on. Weak passwords. For all the advancements that organisations have made to secure their systems, password practices remain a huge problem. Passwords are usually compromised in one of two ways.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“P2Pinfect activity has increased rapidly with 3,619 events observed during the week of the 12th – 19th of September alone – an increase of 60216.7% !” The main payload also iterates through all users on the system and attempts to change their user passwords. ” reads the analysis published by Cado Security Labs.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 2, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated controlling touchscreens at a distance, at least in a laboratory setting: The core idea is to take advantage of the electromagnetic signals to execute basic touch events such as taps and swipes into targeted locations of the touchscreen with the goal of taking over remote control and manipulating the underlying device.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Requirements The Amendment includes a new requirement to report to the superintendent of NYDFS when a ransomware event has been deployed in a material part of the covered entity’s information system (500.1(g)(3)). c)) regardless of the impact of the underlying cybersecurity event.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Vinson & Elkins also provide examples of material events such as: Violated security or procedures that create a liability Incidents significantly affecting company reputation or financial position Incidents affecting company operations significantly. for past events and the template of information required for those follow-up reports.

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Enterprise Software Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

This screen will only require two input fields - one for email and one for password. The home page will feature the dashboard, which will display all events that the current user is attending in card components. Moving forward, we will create a page for adding new events. For this demo, we will select all available endpoints.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2019

and higher can now be used as Security Keys , an additional authentication layer that helps thwart phishing sites and password theft. Once a user has enrolled their Android phone as a Security Key, the user will need to approve logins via a prompt sent to their phone after submitting their username and password at a Google login page.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

“Unlike the majority of Mirai variants, which natively brute force Telnet servers using default or weak passwords, RapperBot exclusively scans and attempts to brute force SSH servers configured to accept password authentication. The bulk of the malware code contains an implementation of an SSH 2.0 ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

After verifying my email address, I was asked to pick a strong password and select a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). Password reset questions selected, the site proceeded to ask four, multiple-guess “knowledge-based authentication” questions to verify my identity.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The following considerations should help to harden your organisation’s posture and reduce the impact of a cyber event: Review and share your Incident Response Plan, Crisis Management Plan and Business Continuity and DR plans with key team members and make sure they address all current threats. Ensure good password hygiene.

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