How Endpoint Management Can Keep Workplace IT Secure

Workplaces have become highly connected. Even a small business could have dozens of devices in the form of desktops, mobile devices, routers, and even smart appliances as part of its IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, each of these endpoints can now be a weak link that hackers could exploit. Hacke...

A week in security (March 18 – 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we touched on the susceptibility of hospitals against phishing attacks, password reuse, the risk of interactive TV shows to side-channel attacks, and Facebook's new and out-of-character plan to promote privacy in the platform. Other cybersecurity news A study...

Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords

Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing to brute force and password spraying attacks, modern hackers don’t have to do much hacking in order to compromise internal corporate networks. Instead, they log in using wea...

Fourth Major Credential Spill in a Month Hits DreamMarket

The hacker behind more than 840 million account records appearing for sale on the Dark Web in February in dumps collectively known as Collections 1-3 is back with 26.42 more records from six companies. The adversary, who goes by the handle Gnosticplayers, is asking just 1.2431 in Bitcoin roughly...

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach

Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...

Breaches, breaches everywhere, it must be the season

After last weeks shocker from Marriott this week started off with disclosures about breaches at Quora, Dunkin’ Donuts, and 1-800-Flowers. Quora Quora is an online community that focuses on asking and answering questions. It was founded in 2009 by two former Facebook employees. The stolen data may...

Podcast: Troy Hunt Talks Bad Passwords – and Who’s to Blame for Them

With credential-stuffing making headlines when it comes to certain data breaches – including the recent HSBC breach reported earlier this week – the security community has continued to ponder an age-old question: Who is responsible for effective password hygiene and security measures? The account...

ThreatList: Despite Fraud Awareness, Password Reuse Persists for Half of U.S. Consumers

As National Fraud Day approaches Nov. 11, it remains clear that more consumer education is required when it comes to thwarting scammers and identity thieves. Despite almost half of U.S. consumers 49 percent believing their security habits make them vulnerable to information fraud or identity thef...

CVE-2018-17298: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

An issue was discovered in Enalean Tuleap before 10.5. Reset password links are not invalidated after a user changes its password...

curl: Case insensitive password comparison

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped...

Network Infrastructure Penetration Testing: SPARTA

SPARTA is a python GUI application which simplifies network infrastructure penetration testing by aiding the penetration tester in the scanning and enumeration phase. It allows the tester to save time by having point-and-click access to his toolkit and by displaying all tool output in a convenien...

Collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text Leaked Passwords Found Circulating Online

Hackers always first go for the weakest link to quickly gain access to your online accounts. Online users habit of reusing the same password across multiple services gives hackers opportunity to use the credentials gathered from a data breach to break into their other online accounts. Researchers...

Weblate: Previous password could set as new password

Hi As resolved in 229577, I could still confirm this works. A previously set password could be set as a new one. Shuaib...

Proposed NIST Password Guidelines Soften Length, Complexity Focus

A comment period has closed on NIST’s new password guidelines for federal agencies that challenge the effectiveness of traditional behaviors around authentication such as an insistence on complex passwords and scheduled resets. As more tech companies move away from passwords and toward multistep...

Weblate: Weak password policy

Hi team, i get to know that you are using strong password policy. i gone through application and checked for that. and get to know that as per ISO9001 security compliance weak password policy. Steps : 1 signup with https://hosted.weblate.org/ with password vikas@123 2 forget password and change t...

Popular PlayStation and Xbox Gaming Forums Hacked; 2.5 Million Users' Data Leaked

Do you own an account on one of the two hugely popular PlayStation and Xbox gaming forums? Your details may have been exposed, as it has been revealed that the two popular video gaming forums, "XBOX360 ISO" and "PSP ISO," has been hacked, exposing email addresses, account passwords and IP address...

Yahoo Reportedly to Confirm Breach of Hundreds of Millions of Credentials

Yahoo is expected to confirm a data breach that exposed hundreds of millions of credentials dating back four years. A report published today by Recode intimates that the total number of exposed credentials will be higher than the 200 million initially reported in early August. A request for comme...

Yahoo Investigates 200 Million Alleged Accounts For Sale On Dark Web

Yahoo says it is investigating reports of 200 million user credentials advertised for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker that goes by the handle “peaceofmind”. The Yahoo credentials, according to the site listing the database for sale, includes usernames, passwords hashed using the MD5 algorithm,...

Carbonite Triggers Password Reset for 1.5M Customers After Reuse Attack

Online backup firm Carbonite is forcing all of its 1.5 million users to change their passwords after reporting that accounts was targeted in a password reuse attack. According to a statement issued by Carbonite on Tuesday hackers were attempting to break into user accounts using stolen credential...

Citrix GoToMyPC Suffers Major Password Reuse Attack

Citrix Systems is forcing all its GoToMyPC remote desktop access service customers to reset their passwords because of a “very sophisticated attack” that targeted the service over the weekend. John Bennett, product line director for Citrix said the attack was a result of leaked passwords from oth...