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...

Github accounts Hacked in 'Password reuse attack'

Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users' accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other recent data breaches. Yes, GitHub has become the latest target of a password reuse attack after Facebook CEO Mark...

On Password Reuse, Ransomware, and the Lack of Secured Internet Services

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss news from the week, including how the recent data breaches have fed off password reuse, how a Canadian university paid $20K CDN following a ransomware attack, a scan that showed a lack of secured services on the internet, and more. Download:...

Stolen Twitter Credentials Latest Dataset For Sale

Tens of millions of Twitter account records including cleartext passwords are up for sale on a black market site, the latest cache of bundled credentials for major online services to be made available. The Twitter records have been analyzed by LeakedSource, which said in a post yesterday that a...

Data Breaches Feed Password Reuse Crimes: No Simple Fixes

It was June 2012 when Dale Meredith was shopping online for a BBQ grill for Father’s Day and found one at Sears.com. The only snag, he had to create a username and password to buy it. That irked him. He was annoyed because it was literally the hundredth-plus service—including his local newspaper,...

TeamViewer Denies Hack, Blames Password Reuse for Compromises

Remote support software company TeamViewer continues to contest claims this week it was hacked and instead claims that password reuse and careless user actions may have led to some of its customers’ machines being compromised. The German company has been vigilant with its stance since posting a...

credmap - The Credential Mapper

Credmap is an open source tool that was created to bring awareness to the dangers of credential reuse. It is capable of testing supplied user credentials on several known websites to test if the password has been reused on any of these. Help Menu Usage: credmap.py --email EMAIL | --user USER |...

SPARTA - Network Infrastructure Penetration Testing Tool

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...

Facebook Tool Mines Stolen Passwords

When a cache of millions—or even a billion—username-password combinations is stolen and posted to Pastebin, Github or a hacker forum, victimized organizations struggle to respond. And victimized users often twist in the wind wondering whether their identities and personal information are at risk...

Cracking 16 Character Strong passwords in less than an hour

The Password serves to protect your financial transactions, your social networking sites, and a host of other nominally secure websites online. People often say, "don't use dictionary words as passwords. They are horribly unsecure", but what if hackers also managed to crack any 16 character...

JBoss: CallerIdentityLoginModule retaining password from previous call if a null password is provided

The CallerIdentityLoginModule in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP before 5.2.0, Web Platform EWP before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 allows remote attackers to gain privileges of the previous user via a null password, which causes the previous user's...

JBoss: CallerIdentityLoginModule retaining password from previous call if a null password is provided

The CallerIdentityLoginModule in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP before 5.2.0, Web Platform EWP before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 allows remote attackers to gain privileges of the previous user via a null password, which causes the previous user's...

JBoss: CallerIdentityLoginModule retaining password from previous call if a null password is provided

The CallerIdentityLoginModule in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP before 5.2.0, Web Platform EWP before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 allows remote attackers to gain privileges of the previous user via a null password, which causes the previous user's...