Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The group often exploited access to government infrastructure to target other government entities. “Earth Krahang abuses the trust between governments to conduct their attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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IT Governance

MAY 5, 2022

“My password was hacked”: it’s one of the oldest excuses in the book for people who post something regrettable online. All of us have dozens of accounts that are only one password breach away from compromising sensitive information. It’s why the tech giant Intel created World Password Day, which is celebrated on 5 May 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

Top executives of the software firm SolarWinds blamed an intern for having used a weak password for several years, exposing the company to hack. Top executives of the SolarWinds firm believe that the root cause of the recently disclosed supply chain attack is an intern that has used a weak password for several years. Confronted by Rep.

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IT Governance

APRIL 14, 2021

A strong, unique password is one of the simplest ways we can thwart cyber criminals, but millions of us are making basic mistakes, according to an NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) survey. Similarly, using personal details for your password exposes you to a breach from someone you know. How to create strong, memorable passwords.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Stopping Cyberattacks by Moving Away From Password-Based Authentication The January memorandum from President Biden’s Office of Management and Budget calls for adopting multifactor authentication that includes the verification of device-based security controls, continuous monitoring, and authentication and mandates a switch to phishing-resistant MFA (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript: Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 September 2023. The Cyber Essentials scheme is a government-backed framework supported by the National Cyber security Centre. IT Governance has been a certification body for the scheme since 2014, when it was launched.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. ” reported CBA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews Usernames Names Government ID numbers (CURP) Phone numbers Email addresses Home addresses Dates of Birth Gender KYC status IP addresses used to register for an account IP addresses used to log in Deposit amounts Withdrawal amounts Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents. Amount of leaked data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. ” reads the alert issued by the Israeli government. The post Hackers targeted ICS/SCADA systems at water facilities, Israeli government warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 28, 2019

The Japanese government's decision to log into users' IoT devices has sparked outrage in Japan. However, the government's plan has its technical merits. Many of today's IoT and router botnets are being built by hackers who take over devices with default or easy-to-guess passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. According to an Aug.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

No reliable technical findings have been made of what information was transferred, but the investigation shows that there were probably usernames and passwords associated with employees in various state administration offices. The post Norway blames China-linked APT31 for 2018 government hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. government inboxes. And when all of your passwords are stolen and your important accounts have been hijacked or sold, you will wish you had simply paid for the real thing.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 9, 2020

FireEye uses these tools to test the defences of its clients, which include an array of government and US national security agencies. It’s not clear when the attack took place, but according to Reuters a person familiar with the events said the organisation has been resetting user passwords over the past two weeks.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2019

Earlier this year, the Japanese government launched a campaign in which it hacked into citizens’ IoT (Internet of Things) devices to see how secure the technology is. Once the test is complete, the government will tell the IoT providers about their vulnerabilities and instruct them to address the issues.

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IT Governance

APRIL 30, 2019

There are more than 171,000 words in the English language, and yet millions of us can’t look beyond the word that’s right in front of us when selecting a password. million Britons use ‘password’ as their password. How to make your passwords stronger. To put it another way, How Secure Is My Password?

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Rocket Software

MAY 15, 2020

On May 7, IT and technology businesses around the world celebrated World Password Day, a day meant to remind everyone of the importance of keeping personal and business data protected and secure. Passwords used to be simple to secure: you had to create a username and a unique password, and that was essentially it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks, as well as aviation networks. . This joint advisory provides information on Russia-linked APT actor activity targeting various U.S.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance with more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. In my research work for IT Governance, I’ve noticed a pattern where the same names repeatedly crop up. What else can organisations do to protect themselves?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. The script intercepts entered credentials and pass them via POST request: HTTP POST transmits login and password to script deployed on jbdelmarket[.]com: com: The domain jbdelmarket[.]com

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. ” continues the alert. newversion file extension instead of.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. The researchers explain that: “All password managers [they] examined sufficiently secured user secrets while in a ‘not running’ state. Each password manager also attempted to scrub secrets from memory. Here are this week’s stories.

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Threatpost

MAY 23, 2019

As passwords are increasingly viewed as security liabilities, Identity Management solutions are picking up the slack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal information on their targets.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. Xplain provides its services to several federal and cantonal government departments, the army, customs, and the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol). ” reads the report.

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IT Governance

MARCH 22, 2019

Up to 600 million Facebook users have had their passwords leaked in an internal data breach. Security researcher Brian Krebs broke the news on 21 March 2019, explaining that the social network’s internal company servers contained passwords stored in plaintext. No signs of misuse’. What you can learn from this incident.

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Roger's Information Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor wrote in March it is time to reconsider mandatory password changes. Unless there is reason to believe a password has been compromised or shared, requiring regular password changes may actually do more harm than good in some cases. The prime reason given is users pick bad passwords.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

A state-based actor is launching cyber attacks against government, public services and businesses, Australia ‘s prime minister said. Australia ‘s prime minister Scott Morrison said that a “state-based actor” is targeting government, public services, and businesses.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? The standards on password usage are changing. Well, let me share some good news. Like this: TxRecBi#1! Texas Record Blog Is Number One!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. .” ” continues the notification.

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IG Guru

APRIL 26, 2022

The post Some of tech’s biggest names want a future without passwords — here’s what that would look like via CNBC appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets. . “CrimsonRAT has been known to target diplomatic and government organizations in Southeast Asia.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It only takes one password to fall into the wrong hands for cyber criminals to be able to access your systems and networks and cause harm. Sharing passwords often occurs because team members trust one another and share the workload, but what would happen if one of those employees turned rogue? forbids the practice.

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