ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Libraries Blockchain Mining Encryption 52

eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 20, 2019

Fifth Amendment and Passwords: Are mobile device passwords protected by the Fifth Amendment? 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights), and the court remanded the case to the Superior Court for entry of an order compelling the defendant to enter the password into the cell phone at issue in the case. In Commonwealth v.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Fortunately, that didn't include driving functions, but it did include the ability to remotely manage the climate control and as you can see in the video embedded in that post, I warmed things up for my mate Scott Helme from the other side of the world whilst he sat there on a cold, damp, English night.

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 225

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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Passwords Access Risk Security 81

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. Vamosi: I first became aware of hash after the Texas freeze, in particular hash and published a video on YouTube showing him driving around the streets of Dallas.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics IT Communications 52

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

.” David said Truglia initially explained his wealth by saying he’d made the money by mining cryptocurrencies , but that Truglia later would admit he stole the funds. “Over the next few months, Nick and I socialized at nightclubs, local bars, the gym, and in his apartment playing video games,” David recounted.

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Passwords Mining Phishing Authentication 220

Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Emily talks about why Google is intending to hide the HTTPS scheme at about the 5-minute mark in that video and it's worth a watch. For example, from that talk of mine: That's stripe.ian.sh Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. Who else has access to something that's, that's not uncommon, interviewed that, for example, someone still had someone share Facebook passwords.

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Passwords Access IoT IT 52

ChiefTech

JULY 10, 2008

Mine was: Boffo. You know the ones: you type in your name, choose a username, enter your email address, and your password (twice), hit the submit button…and…bad things happen. bof·fo (bf) slang , adj.: Extremely successful; great.). The username is already taken.

Mining 52

Mining Marketing IT Paper 52

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. If you're pregnant and hopping over to pregnancybirthbaby.org.au No, I'm not a depressed alcoholic teenager who's expecting.)

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Privacy Phishing Encryption Security 143

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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Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 95

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

They had a reporter in the driver's seat on a Missouri interstate during rush hour, and captured on video how the researchers remotely turned off the brake system. Nothing was the same that the way the servers connected with the password, all of that stuff was completely different. And also check out CANBushack.

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Manufacturing Computer and Electronics Communications Access 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

A colleague of mine used to travel around to sans training conferences across the country. You can learn a lot by following along with their videos. It looks like a video game. Sandelius: That's a good question. We have spent some years trying to figure that out. We hosted lunch and learned to talk about our programs.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Military IT Security 52

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. Wearco produces "mining consumables". mSpy leaked data. Cellnet is a publicly listed company with a heap of different brands.

Passwords 111

Passwords Privacy Manufacturing Access 111

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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Data breaches Passwords IT Mining 111

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ?? Neither will my daughter when I share a video of her coding at home: Got my 5 year old daughter coding up a storm on her school holidays, she loves it! He won't be emotionally scarred, nor will he grow up feeling like his privacy has been violated.

Privacy 141

Privacy Access IT Education 141

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

How HIBP runs across the various Azure services, the Cloudflare dependencies, how I recover if things go wrong and then how that's managed across different autonomous parts of the project such as the HIBP website, the Pwned Passwords service etc etc. of the company. Collectively, we agreed to put pens down.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

It didn't matter whether individual accounts had a complicated and hard-to-remember password, or two-factor authentication. Or a vulnerability in internet-enabled digital video recorders and webcams that allows an attacker to recruit those devices into a massive botnet. Your guess is as good as mine. Are they manual?

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