Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

How can financial services institutions better protect employee passwords? One of the most common threat vectors plaguing financial services institutions is the employee password.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2019

Politicians' All-Star Password Picks: '123' and 'ILoveYou' German officials say the suspect behind the mega-leak of politicians' and celebrities' personal details exploited their weak passwords to access email, social media and cloud service accounts. What can the security industry do to help address the password problem?

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The Industry's 1st Active Directory Plugin That Helps Organizations Prevent Use of Compromised Passwords According to NIST 800-63b Guidelines With widespread use of Active Directory across industries and organizations of all sizes, it is frequently a target for bad actors who can use a cracking dictionary or exposed credentials to gain unauthorized (..)

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe. In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Quasar RAT is available as an open-source tool on several public repositories, attackers use to avoid detection leveraging methods such as password protection and encoded macros. Its features include capturing screenshots, recording webcam, editing registry, keylogging, and stealing passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a simple Google search, anyone could have found the password to one of the compromised, stolen email addresses: a gift to every opportunistic attacker.” The analysis of a subset of ~500 stolen credentials revealed that victims belong to a wide range of target industries, including IT, healthcare, real estate, and manufacturing.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Experts discovered that at least 200 companies were the victims of a campaign, dubbed Gangnam Industrial Style, carried out by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group. The attachments are “industrial-themed,” they include white papers, power plant diagrams, and quote requests for blueprints of facilities.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 29, 2021

A new study released by Incognia that measures user friction in mobile financial apps yields important results about the fate of the password. The post As Mobile Fraud Rises, The Password Persists appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories What’s Good IAM?

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Data Breach Today

JULY 15, 2019

NIST Cyber Security Framework NIST guidelines often become the foundation for best practice recommendations across the security industry and are incorporated into other standards.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. an Instagram spokesperson told The Verge. ” continues The Information.

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AIIM

JUNE 21, 2018

In light of recent events, we can all agree that information security has been criminally overlooked on some major fronts across most industries. Passwords Are Power. The most important tool you can use in your uphill fight against the endless hordes of hackers is the ever-valorous password. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A search on that email address at the breach intelligence service Constella Intelligence found that a password commonly associated with it was “ niceone.” Apathyp told the proprietor that his chosen password on the service was “ 12Apathy.” ” But the triploo@mail.ru and gezze@mail.ru.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 28, 2024

They screw us on interest rates, they screw us on fees and they screw us on passwords. I took this saying to task almost a decade ago now but it seems that at least as far as password advice goes, they really haven't learned. Ah well, as I always end up lamenting, it's a great time to be in this industry!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The tsunami of passwords that exist across every aspect of our digital life means that there’s a thriving underground industry of cyber-criminals trying to get at them. This time passwords were lightly protected by the 1970s-era DES algorithm. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Accessing vital information to complete day-to-day tasks at our jobs still requires using a password-based system at most companies. Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Security experts have discovered many vulnerabilities, including a critical issue, in Moxa EDS and IKS industrial switches. Industrial control systems used in many industries, including the energy sector, critical manufacturing, and transportation, continues to be an element of concern for security experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

The attacks focus on industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) systems in the target infrastructure. They aim to exploit modular, internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS), targeting software components like human machine interfaces (HMIs). ” concludes the advisory.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. 6 characters. for my *online banking*.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

A security expert at SEC Consult discovered that some WAGO industrial managed switches are affected by several serious vulnerabilities. A security researcher at consulting company SEC Consult discovered several vulnerabilities in some models of WAGO industrial switches. SecurityAffairs – Wago industrial switches, hacking).

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Threatpost

JUNE 7, 2019

Poor password hygiene continues to plague the security industry, Troy Hunt said during Infosecurity Europe.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In today’s geopolitical terrain, nation-state backed cyber criminals are widening their targets and starting to zero in on their adversaries’ business and industrial sectors, using more and more sophisticated weaponry to do so. Organizations and industries don’t have to remain sitting ducks. Being vigilant and proactive.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Security of Industrial system is a top priority, experts found multiple serious flaws in a gateway made by Kunbus that could allow to completely control a device. “An unauthenticated user can change the admin password, use it to get full control of the device, change its configuration and then lock the administrator out.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Microsoft has watched the group carry out so-called password-spraying attacks over the past year that try just a few common passwords across user accounts at tens of thousands of organizations. The hackers' motivation -- and which industrial control systems they've actually breached -- remains unclear.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2022

From financial institutions to meat producers, it seems every industry has been impacted by ransomware in the past year — maybe even the past week. While it’s nice to see law enforcement and governments go after the gangs, that won’t stop the monster that has grown out of control, that we, as an industry, continue to feed.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the custom-backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since 2020. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since early 2020. ” reads the report published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 17, 2020

Depending on what industry you’re in, your approach to security may be very different. For almost every industry, multi-factor authentication can be beneficial. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is any password that requires multiple steps or components to facilitate logging in. But what about healthcare?

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti hacking group continues to target gaming industry, recently it used a new malware named PipeMon and a new method to achieve persistence. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Stock trading service Robinhood announced that the passwords of a number of users were stored in plaintext, the company is informing impacted ones. Stock trading service Robinhood admitted to have stored passwords of a number of users in plain text, the company is informing impacted ones via emai l. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Researchers at ISE have identified security flaws affecting four popular password managers on the Windows 10 platform, which could allow malware to access the master password and/or the individual passwords stored in them, even when the password managers are locked. million users – are all potentially affected.

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