Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The contracts laid out how much each speaker makes per event, details about their travel arrangements, and any requirements or obligations stated in advance by both parties to the contract. No secret access or password was needed to view the documents. I began hearing from Troia almost daily beginning in mid-2017.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

I've also been travelling with family far more so whilst those 140 days equate to 38% of my year, there were 14 days in Hawaii, 10 days at the Aussie snow, 11 days in Texas and 17 days in Canada where I wasn't flying solo. Probably with my 2018 events page which lists everything I did of a public nature. I love this post.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Those using Android 10 and earlier versions should consider switching to devices running supported versions or utilizing third-party Android ROMs based on recent AOSP versions. The problem: Cisco security engineers found CV3-2023-20238 , which carries a CVSS score of 10, the highest possible. Users of the 23.0 version of Superset.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

These are often mainstream news events and what reporters often want to impart to people is along the lines of "Here's what you should do if you've been impacted", which often boils down to checking HIBP. Passwords This was never on the cards originally. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Before jumping into the technical details regarding each new malware detected and proper safeguards, here is a brief look at the events to date: Sep 2019. With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. Disabling and re-enabling event logging at their pleasure. The SAML 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. In the event of a successful breach, your team must be ready to restore systems and data recovery. Microsegmentation. Rapid Response Testing. Sandbox Testing.

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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. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. It's basically 2017.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services. Not had a @haveibeenpwned notification!

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. Infection in this instance could have been prevented by basic cyber hygiene.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

To compromise devices, the initial version of MIRAI relied exclusively on a fixed set of 64 well-known default login/password combinations commonly used by IoT devices. MIRAI was able to infect over 600,000 IoT devices by simply exploiting a set of 64 well-known default IoT login/password combinations. 1, 10, 11, 15.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

We’ll start with the top 10 overall and then look at other noteworthy startups in a number of markets. Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups. Series A SenseOn 2017 London, UK 61 $26.4 Deduce offers actionable identity intelligence through event-level telemetry to act against abnormal user activity. Series B SECURITI.ai

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