Data Breach Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Facebook Passwords, Valid Cookies Some 26 million passwords were exposed in a 1.2 Data Includes 1.5M terabyte batch of data found by NordLocker, a security company. It's workaday botnet data but highlights a hostile malware landscape, particularly for people still inclined to download pirated software.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Until biometrics or a quantum solution change our everyday approach to encryption, passwords remain our first line of defense against data breaches, hackers, and thieves. Proper password hygiene doesn’t require a degree in rocket science. 1) Create sufficiently-complex passwords. But simpler passwords are much easier to hack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. Change your password. Click on ‘Security’ from the left-hand menu.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Vikas Malhotra of LastPass on Ways to Transition From Password to Passwordless Vikas Malhotra, country manager, LastPass, discusses establishing a password management program as the first line of defense in establishing user identity, followed by 2FA and MFA as the second step in the protection process.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DarkBeam, a digital risk protection firm, left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records with user emails and passwords from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. Similar databases – large combinations of email and password pairs – have been leaked in the past. billion records.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

But without the protection of a password, there’s a decent chance your next Zoom meeting could be “Zoom bombed” — attended or disrupted by someone who doesn’t belong. zWarDial, an automated tool for finding non-password protected Zoom meetings.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. An ad for the OTP interception service/bot “SMSRanger.”

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2021

Million Facebook Passwords Among Leaked Data; Raccoon Infostealer Suspected Some 26 million passwords were exposed in a 1.2 terabyte batch of data found by NordLocker, a security company. It's workaday botnet data, but it highlights a hostile malware landscape, particularly for people still inclined to download pirated software.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is unflattering. Interestingly, one of the more common connections involves re-using or recycling passwords across multiple accounts.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Agency Says Hackers Can Use a Known Bug for Further Exploitation CISA is warning about a possible password leak that could affect vulnerable Fortinet VPNs and lead to further exploitation.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This is not the first time Cisco products have had hard-coded passwords made public. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user. You’d think it would learn.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 27, 2022

FIDO Alliance Leader Andrew Shikiar on New Deal With Google, Apple and Microsoft Tired of keeping track of passwords?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, user passwords were stored in the MD5 hash format. Not only did it include the application’s secrets, stored on the client side of the app, but enterprise and user information as well, including users’ passwords,” the Cybernews team said. The leaked data is sensitive.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021. Every year, the first Thursday in May serves as a reminder for us to take control of our personal password strategies. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2023

A newly discovered bug in the open source password manager, if exploited, lets attackers retrieve a target's master password — and proof-of-concept code is available.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

While Unencrypted Data Also Stolen, Experts Urge Continued Use of Password Managers The attack earlier this year that compromised systems and data at LastPass is more extensive than the password management software provider previously revealed.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2021

One financial startup that’s targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to hand over the payroll account username and password given to them by their employer, plus a regular payment for each month afterwards in which those credentials still work. This ad, from workplaceunited[.]com, Click to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Iran-linked Peach Sandstorm APT is behind password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023. Microsoft researchers observed a series of password spray attacks conducted by Iran nation-state actors as part of a campaign named Peach Sandstorm (aka Holmium , APT33 , Elfin , and Magic Hound ).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Yet most people don’t know how to use them properly.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Our login credentials of a username and password are sometimes all that stands between our personal identifiable information and cybercriminals. Count Hackula could be waiting in the shadows to bite on your weak or reused password.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Password Managers Remain Attractive Targets for Hackers Gen Digital, owner of the Norton LifeLock brand, is notifying more than 6,000 U.S. individuals that hackers might have the valid credentials for logging onto their Norton Password Manager after the company detected a credential stuffing attack in December.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2023

A researcher published a PoC tool to retrieve the master password from KeePass by exploiting the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability. X Master Password Dumper that allows retrieving the master password for KeePass. ” KeePass is a free and open-source software used to securely manage passwords. x versions. x versions.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2023

Amusing parody of password rules. BoingBoing : For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

We all rely on passwords. For better or worse, we will continue to use passwords to access our computing devices and digital services for years to come. Related : The coming of password-less access. Passwords were static to begin with. They have since been modified in two directions: biometrics and dynamic passwords.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Poor Credential Hygiene Leaves Remote Services at Risk of Brute Force Attacks If remote access to corporate networks is only as secure as the weakest link, only some dreadfully weak passwords now stand between hackers and many organizations' most sensitive data, according to new research from Rapid7 into the two most widely used remote access protocols (..)

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

More than half of organizations are nowhere near ditching passwords, even as cyberattackers continue to have a field day with workers' poor credential choices.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million admin portals reveals IT leaders, with the highest privileges, are just as lazy about passwords as everyone else. Analysis of more than 1.8

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In an analysis of web pages identified as admin portals, some incredibly weak passwords were identified – and some of them are going to really surprise you.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 26, 2021

Malware Installed in Update Mechanism Enabled Data Exfiltration Attackers implanted malware into Click Studios' Passwordstate password manager update process, potentially exposing 29,000 users to exfiltration of passwords and other data, the company reports.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 2, 2022

Lookout Plans to Expand SaferPass Beyond Consumers and SMBs and Into the Enterprise Lookout has bought password management provider SaferPass to provide carriers distributing the company's consumer app with more capabilities in a single place.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. Fast forward to now and that ingestion pipeline is finally live.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2020

Ransomware Gangs Keep Pwning Poorly Secured Remote Desktop Protocol Endpoints In honor of World Password Day, here's a task for every organization that uses remote desktop protocol: Ensure that all of your organization's internet-facing RDP ports have a password - and that it's complex and unique.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 9, 2021

Pets, Sports Teams, Notable Dates and Family Member Names Predominate, Experts Warn Loving your pet and creating tough-to-crack passwords should remain two distinctly separate activities. Unfortunately, Britain's National Cyber Security Center reports that more than 1 in 6 Brits admit to using the name of a pet as their password.

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KnowBe4

MAY 4, 2023

It's World Password Day! This holiday is to ensure everyone always practices good password hygiene. This year, we wanted to share the best password resources with you to share with your users.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Passwords are supported everywhere. In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Shikiar discusses how to move beyond passwords. But, says Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, "they have been proven time and time again to simply be unfit for today's networked economy."

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