Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. Get started The post Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 14 February 2019. However, according to TechCrunch, several users “couldn’t explain how their passwords — unique to OkCupid and not used on any other app or site — were inexplicably obtained”. Here are this week’s stories.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts? Like records management , info literacy has considerable social justice implications. I don’t think so.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. Secure credentialing.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. So what if you accidentally forget the password? This really happened to Dan Reich and a friend.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

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. Are governments putting their resources online? This was a more traditional attack.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Anyone with either authorized or unauthorized access to the bank’s computer systems could potentially read every password. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Anyone with either authorized or unauthorized access to the bank’s computer systems could potentially read every password. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. Hash functions are also frequently used to verify user passwords without needing to create a vulnerable client-side database of private passwords.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It was being sold for 5 Bitcoins: That's over US$80k in today's money but back then, it was only a couple of grand (which actually, seems like pretty good value for 167 million accounts and passwords stored as unsalted SHA1 hashes). Then there's bounties run by the government. across the internet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

From legal firms to banks to government departments, office printers are used by organizations of all types and sizes to print sensitive, confidential, and classified data. Or they can simply use these printers to mine cryptocurrency, ramping up their victims’ electricity bills in the process. Change the default password.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

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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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

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. Government. KnowBe4 Mobile Learner App - Users can now train anytime, anywhere!

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was caught storing plaintext passwords in logfiles two years ago. It is highly unlikely that Biden or Obama run their Twitter accounts – they have operatives to do that, so probably not much private gold to be mined at that level. A major portion of password attacks over the last few years have involved attacks against APIs.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences. With DevOps and API advances steamrolling forward, no one has thought to establish the practice of requiring passwords to authenticate users at the API level.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000).

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Who else has access to something that's, that's not uncommon, interviewed that, for example, someone still had someone share Facebook passwords. It's not something I would recommend but people get in relationships, and then ratio ends and it turns out they never change their password, they still can read messages and stuff like that.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. If you're pregnant and hopping over to pregnancybirthbaby.org.au No, I'm not a depressed alcoholic teenager who's expecting.)

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

So this is sometimes used to figure out passwords and credit card details as they're going through any point of sale. And so depending on how it checks the password and the code, it's writing, maybe it checks each letter your sending to see if that letter matches or not. It's mine. It's pretty cool stuff. You can figure it out.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

A colleague of mine used to travel around to sans training conferences across the country. You go through different levels of stages and basis and Jalon as you play the game and the thing from network security, password cracking, digital forensics, things of that nature. Sandelius: That's a good question. I think once or twice a year.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. Like, we know that this is going to mature over this amount of time and then get the sponsors to pay for that which would be you know, either the government sponsors or the corporations or whatnot. Daniel’s first Black HAt was in 1999.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

How HIBP runs across the various Azure services, the Cloudflare dependencies, how I recover if things go wrong and then how that's managed across different autonomous parts of the project such as the HIBP website, the Pwned Passwords service etc etc. Collectively, we agreed to put pens down. I loaded 77 new data breaches comprising of 1.7B

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And just a side-note before I jump into those fundamentals: I had a quick flick through the government's eSafety guidance for children under 5 whilst on the plane and it has a bunch of really good stuff. And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ??

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Because email isn’t deleted from most servers by default, this target-rich digital information environment is often accessible to anyone with a login and password–something that is regularly served up to hackers by the billio ns. While the underlying structures seem naïve, none of it was designed for the general public.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. Your guess is as good as mine.

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