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Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – News of the week

Security Affairs

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

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. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

Back in September, a number of people pointed me at Experian's "FREE Dark Web Email Scan" (capitalisation is theirs, not mine) because on the surface of it, it seemed similar to my Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service. Report URI needs a password as well because you need to be able to login. That is absolutely ridiculous!

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The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords

Troy Hunt

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains

KnowBe4

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Executive Reports - Create, tailor and deliver advanced executive-level reports NEW!

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

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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Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements!

Troy Hunt

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. It was an all or nothing affair that nuked the lot of them whereas now, it's a domain-by-domain exercise.

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