eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Steve Stone, the Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, adds that “we advocate that governments and private industry evaluate and enable recoverable backups for healthcare and a recurring sensitive data evaluation/reporting construct. Government services: The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides free assessment tools.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Broken authentication happens because of poor password creation, compromised password storage systems, and vulnerabilities in the encrypted authentication framework. Throttling works as a safeguard against misuse and depletion of resources by governing the pace at which requests can be initiated. Germany, Canada, and the UK.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. Symmetric encryption is often used for drive encryption, WiFi encryption, and other use cases where speed performance is paramount and a password can be safely shared.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2018

Canada Revenue Agency logs 2,338 privacy breaches in just under 2 years. Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked. Impatient former Hong Kong library worker arrested after stealing customers’ personal data to borrow books faster. Data breaches in 2017.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. Most of the libraries HIBP uses are open source.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

For everything from minor network infractions to devastating cyberattacks and data privacy troubles , digital forensics software can help clean up the mess and get to the root of what happened. The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. The problem: The C library for “uAMQP,” a lightweight Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), contains vulnerability CVE-2024-27099 with a CVSS score of 9.8. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

Royal Yachting Association tells members to reset passwords after intrusion (unknown). Bartlett Public Library District, IL, computers disabled by ransomware (unknown). University of Ottawa says password-protected laptop was stolen from campus (188). Ukraine says personal data leaked from government jobs portal (unknown).

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