Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2021

Million Facebook Passwords Among Leaked Data; Raccoon Infostealer Suspected Some 26 million passwords were exposed in a 1.2 terabyte batch of data found by NordLocker, a security company.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Oldsmar Used Windows 7, Shared TeamViewer Password, Didn't Have a Firewall The Florida city that experienced a breach of its water treatment system used now-unsupported Windows 7 machines, shared the same password for remote access and had no firewall.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Company Says Problem Remediated, All Security-Related Certificates Revoked Remote desktop application provider AnyDesk acknowledged hackers recently gained unauthorized access to the company's production systems in a cyberattack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Company Says Problem Remediated, All Security-Related Certificates Revoked Remote desktop application provider AnyDesk acknowledged hackers recently gained unauthorized access to the company's production systems in a cyberattack.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. An ad for the OTP interception service/bot “SMSRanger.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021. Every year, the first Thursday in May serves as a reminder for us to take control of our personal password strategies. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DarkBeam, a digital risk protection firm, left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records with user emails and passwords from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. Similar databases – large combinations of email and password pairs – have been leaked in the past. billion records.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In an analysis of web pages identified as admin portals, some incredibly weak passwords were identified – and some of them are going to really surprise you.

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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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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Our login credentials of a username and password are sometimes all that stands between our personal identifiable information and cybercriminals. Count Hackula could be waiting in the shadows to bite on your weak or reused password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

Slack is resetting passwords for approximately 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when users created or revoked a shared invitation link for their workspace. Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% ” reads the advisory published by Slack.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Google is making passkeys, the emerging passwordless login technology, the default option for users as it moves to make passwords “obsolete.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2023

A researcher published a PoC tool to retrieve the master password from KeePass by exploiting the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability. Security researcher Vdohney released a PoC tool called KeePass 2.X X Master Password Dumper that allows retrieving the master password for KeePass. x versions. “In KeePass 2.x x versions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked data on nearly half a million of its users, exposing their names and plain-text passwords, the Cybernews research team has found. Scammers can use email addresses and plain text passwords for various attacks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2020

Ransomware Gangs Keep Pwning Poorly Secured Remote Desktop Protocol Endpoints In honor of World Password Day, here's a task for every organization that uses remote desktop protocol: Ensure that all of your organization's internet-facing RDP ports have a password - and that it's complex and unique.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

A flaw in Microsoft Outlook can be exploited to access NTLM v2 hashed passwords by tricking users into opening a specially crafted file. The vulnerability CVE-2023-35636 impacting Microsoft Outlook is a Microsoft Outlook information disclosure issue that could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords.

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KnowBe4

MAY 4, 2023

It's World Password Day! This holiday is to ensure everyone always practices good password hygiene. This year, we wanted to share the best password resources with you to share with your users.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This is not the first time Cisco products have had hard-coded passwords made public. There’s a new Cisco vulnerability in its Emergency Responder product: This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are typically reserved for use during development. You’d think it would learn.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2023

Cybernews reached out to Neho, and the company secured access to their systems. The file contained PostgreSQL and Redis databases credentials, including host, port, username, and password. Among leaked credentials, researchers also found the host, username, and password for Mailgun email services used by the company.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2020

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. When the two of them sat down to reset his password, the screen displayed a notice saying there was a new Gmail address tied to his Xbox account.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Use of LOLBins, GitHub Tools and Cobalt Strike Also Widespread, Researchers Say The top three tactics attackers have been using to break into corporate and government networks are brute-forcing passwords, exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, and social engineering via malicious emails, says security firm Kaspersky in a roundup of its 2020 incident (..)

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 21, 2019

Facebook Under Fresh Scrutiny Over How It Stored User Passwords Facebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were then available to employees through an internal search tool.

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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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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

He's not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords. Change the password to one 1Password automatically generates c. Obviously, he still has a heap of accounts to set decent passwords on, but now he knows the pattern and he can repeat that over and over again.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Users can share password files securely with encrypted transmissions. Vault health reports Directory sync Secure password sharing.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, warns that hackers breached Norton Password Manager accounts. Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, informed its customers that threat actors have breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

The FBI is going to share compromised passwords discovered during investigations with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)’s ‘Pwned Passwords’ service. The Pwned Passwords service allows users to search for known compromised passwords and discover how many times they have been found in past data breaches.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The streaming media platform Plex is urging its users to reset passwords after threat actors gained access to its database. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The password manager's most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The annual study on top-used passwords published by Nordpass revealed that we are still using weak credentials that expose us to serious risks. Nordpass has published its annual report, titled “Top 200 most common passwords,” on the use of passwords. The report shows that we are still using weak passwords.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sometimes browser spellcheckers leak passwords : When using major web browsers like Chrome and Edge, your form data is transmitted to Google and Microsoft, respectively, should enhanced spellcheck features be enabled.

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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

APRIL 12, 2024

Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of account takeover (ATO) and/or data exfiltration.” Then, they enter those accounts to abuse permissions, siphoning out data, or both.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The security breach was discovered as a result of a security audit, the company immediately notified relevant authorities. The company started a remediation and response plan with the help of cyber security firm CrowdStrike. The company started a remediation and response plan with the help of cyber security firm CrowdStrike.

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