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. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2%

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. Data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Grimes, a data defense expert at cybersecurity training vendor KnowBe4. Hackers seeking to get in position to take over control or otherwise disrupt utilities are seeking paths through original equipment manufacturers, third-party vendors, and telecom providers. Before that, Middle East computer security was almost non-existent.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

We offer a variety of resources to help understand and mitigate threats, from training courses and consultancy services to free guides. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

According to Bloomberg, the supply chain of the Californian tech giant Supermicro, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of server motherboards, was compromised in 2014 and 2015, and chips scarcely bigger than a grain of rice were implanted, which apparently opened back doors that enabled Chinese spies to access and exfiltrate data.

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

This one seems obvious – yet the AA got into all sorts of problems last year when thousands of its members received an email telling them that their passwords had been changed. The AA responded by tweeting : “We’re aware an email has been sent to members re password change Please don’t ring the number in the email.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

In this instance, hackers are suspected to have exploited simple cybersecurity loopholes, including the fact that the software shipped with easy-to-guess default passwords. in different industries, including energy, manufacturing, and healthcare.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Severino specifically recommended that organizations “really consider” testing employees about phishing, describing such training as “almost becoming standard,” and that organizations “really consider two-factor authentication.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Related: Why diversity in training is a good thing. In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. People tend to be very resistant to training,” Bastable told me. How much better?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. Like you mentioned, you'd think that the manufacturers would really want to get on top of that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. Like you mentioned, you'd think that the manufacturers would really want to get on top of that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. Like you mentioned, you'd think that the manufacturers would really want to get on top of that.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

The leaked information allegedly includes customers’ names, dates of birth, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing Saudi Arabia Yes 86.16 Data breached: 10,870,524 lines. 96 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Boost your organization’s IT literacy with ongoing cybersecurity training so they recognize the threats posed by malware attacks. Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5 Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Vauxhall Motors database with 5.5

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. Use strong passwords. IT staff should receive technical training applicable for their responsibilities. This training will focus on systems and alerts specific to the organization, recent security alerts, and newly discovered vulnerabilities. Strong Access Control for Users.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2023

AI is likely to make hacks happen faster, whether that’s hacking training data so the model is skewed to make incorrect decisions, or the constant attacks on operating systems that threaten the core of our society. Read on for the full implications of all this. Sadly, I think programmers will experience this same fate.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While Google Pixel devices automatically receive monthly security updates, other device manufacturers may take a little longer to deploy updates since they need to test and tailor fixes for certain hardware setups. Users are also urged to carefully inspect the default setups and passwords, especially while installing software.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer. Vamosi: In 2016 I took a two day car hacking training session at BlackHat USA in Las Vegas. Some of that was on purpose.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Johnson, who had been made redundant by the paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific after 15 years’ service, was able to use login credentials that remained valid. The database also contained up to 400 files with plaintext passwords and secret keys, as well as the source code for the software. million (about £900,000) in damages.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. Multifactor a what's, what's your email, what's your password. There's like a training period that's required, depending on what it is. Vamosi: Right.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. For example, there's a standard, the joint test Action Group, better known as JTAG that is used for verifying designs and testing microcontrollers or chips, after the manufacturer. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. For example, there's a standard, the joint test Action Group, better known as JTAG that is used for verifying designs and testing microcontrollers or chips, after the manufacturer. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Van Norman: industrial control systems are the systems that every industry is going to use from your manufacturing to your chemical, your food and beverage, your power plants. That's where you know, your water plants come in, that's where your chemicals, your oil and gas, your big manufacturing facilities. Van Norman: Right right.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

Network device manufacturers, ISPs, and their owners or operators should refer to the mitigation advice provided in the advisory. It advised users: “As an immediate precaution, if you used the same password on other sites or apps as you did for TaskRabbit, we recommend you change those now”.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? And could you craft a message that these meters would carry across and I kind of equated it to like, freight hopping like if there's a train going down, and a you know, a hobo or something hops on this train. The train keeps going. Turns out they weren't.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

Oil and gas, manufacturing plants and healthcare system. And so if you want to want it to make InfoSec decisions, maybe it has to be trained on private data. So I think there's an image problem for the industry that we need to fix. Very interesting is I have another company called Clarity, which is in the OT security space.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 27, 2018

government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors since at least March 2016. ” Watering-Hole. Through watering-hole attacks, the threat actors compromise “the infrastructure of trusted organizations to reach intended targets.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

In second place, with an average ranking of 3.63, is low security awareness among employees – something only addressed by creating a strong security culture with new-school security awareness training at the center of it all. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

New-school security awareness training teaches your employees to recognize social engineering tactics so they can avoid falling for phishing attacks. That's why training your end-users is so important. One-Time Passwords (OTPs), passwords, or credit card numbers). In this on-demand webinar, Roger A.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The report also highlights that ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted, with attackers focusing on high-value targets with particular emphasis on the Industrial and Manufacturing sectors. Periodic security awareness training is critical, as social engineering and phishing are the initial actions that open the doors to attacks.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

Then there was CloudPets leaking kids voices because the "smart" teddy bears that recorded them (yep, that's right) then stored those recordings in a publicly facing database with no password. Really bad ones: Guess what: a train wreck. mSpy leaked data. But what if a stranger had that ability - how would you feel about that?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China. The reason is that by nearly all accounts it would be punishingly expensive to replicate that manufacturing process here in the United States. Even if the U.S.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Learn about the real risks of weak passwords, why password management is key to building a strong security culture, and our best advice on how to protect your users and your organization. KnowBe4's Chief Learning Officer, John Just, focuses on helping our customers overcome challenges with compliance training programs.

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