Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Interesting usability study: “ More Than Just Good Passwords? A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication “: Abstract : Risk-based Authentication (RBA) is an adaptive security measure to strengthen password-based authentication. Paper’s website.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Researchers at ISE have identified security flaws affecting four popular password managers on the Windows 10 platform, which could allow malware to access the master password and/or the individual passwords stored in them, even when the password managers are locked. million users – are all potentially affected.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

After specifically crawling sites for password leaks in May 2021, the researchers also found 52 websites in which third parties, including the Russian tech giant Yandex, were incidentally collecting password data before submission. ” Research paper. “We were super surprised by these results.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

An advert is currently running in which a man gets his password hacked because, the ad implies, he wasn’t using a VPN (virtual private network). The man’s password? Sooner rather than later, someone will guess your password and stumble into a wealth of sensitive information. Are we all so useless? Security vs convenience.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2022

. “We conjecture that a lot of the SSIDs in our record originate from users trying to set up a network connection manually by entering both SSID and password through the advanced network settings, and, apparently mistakenly, enter the wrong strings as the SSIDs.” ” reads the research paper.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 2, 2022

Paper: “ GhostTouch: Targeted Attacks on Touchscreens without Physical Touch “: Abstract: Capacitive touchscreens have become the primary human-machine interface for personal devices such as smartphones and tablets. In this paper, we present GhostTouch, the first active contactless attack against capacitive touchscreens.

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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. According to the research paper published by the experts, modern mobile devices use separate wireless chips to manage wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and LTE.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Many stick with simple username and password combinations despite the weaknesses of this authentication method. The Problem with Passwords. Passwords are the most common method of authentication. As if their crackability wasn’t bad enough, many attackers already have the passwords and don’t need to apply brute-force attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

. “While these apps have rich and useful functionality that is publicly exposed to end users, they also contain hidden behaviors that are not disclosed, such as backdoors and blacklists designed to block unwanted content” reads the paper published by the experts. ” continues the paper. the researchers conclude.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

I can’t believe that no one has described this taxonomy of access control before Ittay Eyal laid it out in this paper. The paper is about cryptocurrency wallet design, but the ideas are more general. theft Only the adversary has access. theft Only the adversary has access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The technique can be used to recover secrets from popular high-value targets, including Gmail inbox content, and recover passwords auto filled by credential managers. passwords, inbox content, locations, etc.) ” reads the paper published by the academic researchers. passwords, inbox content, locations, etc.)

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2023

It’s neither hard nor expensive : Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. Research paper. Other news articles.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. Perhaps the most important place to enable MFA is with your email accounts. YOUR GOVERNMENT.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets. Fortifications, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password managers, have come along over the past decade or so to keep password abuse in check.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

WhatsApp will use a unique, randomly generated encryption key to encrypt the backup, user can choose to secure the key manually or with a user password. When the users opt for a password, the key is stored in a Backup Key Vault that is built based on a component called a hardware security module (HSM).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 22, 2023

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint authentication or face recognition.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

The discovered flaws can be abused to recover the password of the Wi-Fi network, launch resource consumption attacks, and force devices into using weaker security groups. WPA3-Personal), where one password is shared among all users. Our side-channel attacks target the protocol's password encoding method. News article.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

We show the real-world impact of the GhostTouch attacks in a few proof-of-concept scenarios, including answering an eavesdropping phone call, pressing the button, swiping up to unlock, and entering a password.” ” reads the research paper published by the academics. ” concludes the paper.

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Create unique passwords for your work accounts. Weak passwords are without a doubt the biggest weakness that organisations face – and one of the most easily avoidable. You can find out what makes a strong password by reading our advice , but be warned: it’s no good creating one good password and using it for every account.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Create unique passwords for your work accounts. Weak passwords are without a doubt the biggest weakness that organisations face – and one of the most easily avoidable. You can find out what makes a strong password by reading our advice , but be warned: it’s no good creating one good password and using it for every account.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The production of online newspapers is going as normal, but no paper newspapers will be published on Wednesday. This is because systems for publishing paper newspapers, advertisements and subscription management do not work as normal.” ” reads the statement published by the company. . ” concludes the statement.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

. “By forging an authentication token for specific Netlogon functionality, he was able to call a function to set the computer password of the Domain Controller to a known value. After that, the attacker can use this new password to take control over the domain controller and steal credentials of a domain admin.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The news was reported by The New Paper, which also confirmed that over 70 members already paid the US$150 subscription for lifetime access to the loot. ” reported The New Paper.” “Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Eighteen percent use a paper logbook to do so.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

” reads the research paper. The analysis of the file system of the vehicle’s Telematics Control Unit (TCU), to which they gained access by obtaining an interactive shell with root privileges, they uncovered passwords and certificates for the backend server. ” the paper concluded. ” continues the research. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” reads the research paper published by the experts. on a Tumblr blog, targeting a password that was autofilled into Tumblr’s login page by Chrome’s built-in credential manager. to recover the password. to read sensitive information from other webpages.” ” The experts deployed Spook.js

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Interesting : Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are vulnerable to attacks that use lasers to inject inaudible­ -- and sometimes invisible­ -- commands into the devices and surreptitiously cause them to unlock doors, visit websites, and locate, unlock, and start vehicles, researchers report in a research paper published on Monday.

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Info Source

JUNE 29, 2023

One can imagine that if the administrator password is left as the default, it could be easy to view or download the scanned or copied images from the history information. Conclusion As the paperless society progresses, the volume of paper documents themselves will decrease and MFPs will be used more as scanners.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. This can include; Data encryption; Passwords; VPNs; Spam filters; Multi-factor authentication; Secure code review; and Anti-malware software. It can be kept in any number of places and can be accessed in many ways.

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AIIM

APRIL 6, 2021

This may already the reality for some leading companies, but for most organizations, forms, contracts, agreements, and signoffs are still rooted in wet ink on paper. Just think of how efficiency increases when the paper is removed! It’s this simple distinction that unlocks the true power of Digital Signatures.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. LockBit went in first and exfiltrated data and passwords, and then used PsExe to distribute their ransomware payload. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm. Thus, some of the victim company’s assets got triple encrypted.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2020

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

An attacker could also exploit the flaw to disable security features in the Netlogon authentication process and change a computer’s password on the domain controller’s Active Directory. This can then be used to obtain domain admin credentials and then restore the original DC password.” concludes the research paper.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, and pictures). he KRACK attack allows attackers to decrypt WiFi users’ data without cracking or knowing the password. ” reads the research paper. ” continues the paper. “Second, we systematically investigate the 802.11

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For e.g. Information on paper is secure based on papers longevity. Paper records lasts hundreds of years, if not thousands. However, paper records must be protected from water damage, sunlight, and on-site storage security risk. Is the information stored on a printed physical record, electronically, on a CD, microfilm?

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 25, 2019

23 million people use ‘123456’ as their password. Centrify’s survey also revealed that 27% of employees use the same passwords for multiple accounts. This encourages brute-force password attacks, which are a type of hack in which crooks bombard targets with login attempts using lists of common passwords.

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