Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 9, 2017

On August 4, 2017, the FTC published the third blog post in its “Stick with Security” series. For example, a staff member in charge of payroll should have password protected access to a database of employee information. The FTC’s next blog post, to be published Friday, August 11, will focus on secure passwords and authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. What is cloud security? But in the public cloud, things are much more complicated. For PaaS models, Microsoft and its customers share the responsibility.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The identified vulnerabilities in Android versions 11, 12, and 13 are addressed by these updates, with possible consequences for older, unsupported OS versions. Users are also urged to carefully inspect the default setups and passwords, especially while installing software. Users of the 23.0 version of Superset.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

The payload is a cryptojacking Monero miner. A cryptojacker is bad enough since it will drain power and degrade device performance. This one also carries the potential for compromising sensitive information, particularly credentials, and serving as staging for further attacks. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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