Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

The experts first detected the intrusion on April 12 when the company’s security team identified unauthorized access to their npm production infrastructure using a compromised AWS API key. This contained npm usernames, password hashes, and email addresses for roughly 100k npm users. ” concludes the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its metadata was then indexed by search engines and discovered by Cybernews researchers on October 17th. They recommend immediately terminating any active sessions on the device by logging off from the service, changing passwords, and making sure there are no reused passwords on multiple accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

The many privacy and security issues raised by IoT, however, are another story. The addressing of IoT privacy and security concerns lags far, far behind. And industry groups and government regulators are stepping up efforts to incentivize IoT device makers to embed security at the device level.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“And in the shared responsibility model, keeping this data secure is the responsibility of the organization that owns the buckets in which the data resides.” Also read: Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model. ” Also read: CNAP Platforms: The Next Evolution of Cloud Security. A Data-Centric View.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Attackers may have exploited leaked credentials to brute force access to the repository, since they only needed a password, which is faster than guessing both a username and password. Car industry fails to prevent data leaks Volvo is not the only car brand that has recently exposed itself and its customers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Early this year, Trend Micro investigated a security breach suffered by a company in Taiwan. The malware was embedded in a password-protected archive attached to the messages. In other cases, attackers shared a link to a Google Drive hosting a password-protected archive containing a Cobalt Strike loader called CroxLoader.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also included the metadata encryption with hardware support. ” reads a post written by Vikrant Nanda and René Mayrhofer from Android Security & Privacy Team. ” concluded Google.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The campaign was uncovered by CrowdStrike by investigating a series of security incidents in multiple countries, the security firm added that the threat actors show an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 12, 2017

Security Keys are (generally) USB-connected hardware fobs that are capable of key generation and oracle signing. Websites can “enroll” a security key by asking it to generate a public key bound to an “appId” (which is limited by the browser based on the site's origin). Yubico Security Key. Thetis U2F Security Key.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

At ForAllSecure, our mission is to make security easy to use and easy to integrate with your existing development process. On that note, we’ve released our Mayhem GitHub Action , making it easier than ever to secure your applications using Mayhem in a GitHub CI/CD pipeline ( for free! ). Development Speed or Code Security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Boffins discovered bugs in WiFi chips that can be exploited to extract passwords and manipulate traffic by targeting a device’s Bluetooth component. Threat actors can execute code by exploiting an unpatched or new security issue over-the-air, or abusing the local OS firmware update mechanism. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ukraine’s premier law enforcement and counterintelligence disclosed the real identities of five alleged members of the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) that are suspected to be components of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). ” concludes the announcement.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

WizCase security team has found a major breach in phone-tracking service Ringostat ’s database. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 8, 2021

Controlling access is at the heart of any enterprise security environment—making sure only those who have the appropriate permissions can access the data, enter the facilities, print a secure document, etc. The need to manage users and authenticators in a secure and timely way is important with any PKI-based deployment.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An investigation into indexed information from internet-connected devices provided a list of universities with compromised website security. The level of security wasn’t necessarily linked to the university’s size or significance, as both small and large universities displayed similar vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This could lead the exposure of email addresses and some default passwords in “some rare cases.”. Karim El Ouerghemmi discovered that security issues allows authors to alter metadata and delete files that they normally would not be authorized to delete. Security Affairs –WordPress, security). and older releases.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most of the leaked data is company information and emails, but includes employee names, phone numbers, employment contract numbers and emails, as well as email attachments, metadata and other sensitive information that could be exploited in supply chain attacks. Among those affected was SAP SE. The dashboard was first spotted in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

The spear-phishing message appears as a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear security expert at a US-based think tank focused on foreign affairs. Once executed the macro, the recipient is directed to a Dropbox URL.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

A huge trove of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a server for at least a week. Another data leak made the headlines, a huge trove of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a server for at least a week. ” reads the press release.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

Security experts from Recorded Future reported that a backdoor previously used in attacks carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor was used to target a key organization in the European energy sector. . The post Iran-Linked PupyRAT backdoor used in recent attacks on European energy sector appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

The message uses what’s known as an “ OP RETURN ,” or an instruction of the Bitcoin scripting language that allows users to attach metadata to a transaction — and thus save it on the blockchain. Bitcoin transactions are public record, and each transaction can be sent along with an optional short message. federal court.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Both vulnerabilities have been actively exploited in the wild by threat actors and the CVE-2021-26411 was already exploited by North Korean APT groups in attacks aimed at security researchers working on vulnerability research in January. Harvest cookies and a password database for supported browsers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The true nature of the email was later revealed by the attacker to the cyber security researcher Brian Krebs. The email purports to be from the US Department of Homeland Security Cyber Threat Detection and Analysis Group, which no longer exists. The requirements for creating a secure development policy are outlined in Annex A.14

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

AT&T said the data exposed did not include sensitive information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers, or account passwords, but was limited to “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI), such as the number of lines on an account. ” Is your mobile Internet usage covered by CPNI laws?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Cyber security researcher Luca Mella analyzed the Makop ransomware employed in a recent intrusion. Technical details of the Makop ransomware encryption tool have been greatly deepened by the Lifars security team ( link ), so, in this article, I am going to focus on other parts of the Makop gang arsenal leveraged to conduct digital extortions.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released guidance and best practices for securing virtual private network (VPN) solutions. What might be most striking about the document is how many security steps and solutions it takes to properly secure VPN connections.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

Metadata, techniques to trick the user into enabling content) between the above documents and the ones analyzed in previous attacks distributing the Remcos Trojan. The malware also steals passwords from several browsers, including FileZilla, Beyluxe Messenger, CoreFTP, and the video game Minecraft. ” states the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Cookies are more valuable than passwords because they contain session tokens, which are post-authentication tokens. Upon stealing Facebook-related credentials, SilentFade retrieves the metadata of the Facebook account (i.e. payment information and the total amount previously spent on Facebook ads) using the Facebook Graph API.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Amazon S3 buckets are also known for being challenging to secure, leaving many servers unprotected – and often in the news. As of May 15, the data bucket security issue has been fixed by the Tellus security team and the data is no longer accessible. What’s in the data bucket? Original post available on Cybernews: [link].

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In August password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. The backup contains both unencrypted data (i.e.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When scaling up the number of applications you manage, it can feel like there are a lot of moving parts to ensure that your APIs are going through to the right applications in a secure manner. A “secret” stores sensitive data, such as a password, authentication token, key or certificate.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. Security breach costs Ripple cryptocurrency holders 23 million XRP (12). EatStreet food ordering service discloses security breach (6 million). Hackers stole $1.75 million).

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 6, 2020

PASSWORDS AND FIFTH AMENDMENT PROTECTION. What better place to start than two of the most notable cases of this (or any other) year, dealing with forced provision of device passwords and the application of the “foregone conclusion” exception of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

RPA developers create configurable process-specific metadata including business rules that can change over time, reference data, exception handling, retry behavior, etc. The ROC makes operations personnel accountable for provisioning this metadata to RPA processes in collaboration with business owners.

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