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...

The use of passwords in a technological evolution

Every day we read about an incredible number of successful attacks and data breaches that exploited leak of authentication mechanisms practically in every sector. Often also critical control system are exposed on line protected only by a weak password, in many cases the default one of factory...

Analysis of STRATFOR Passwords Reveals Shoddy Security

A partial analysis of another massive leak of user passwords has again shone a light on the scourge of weak passwords used to protect sensitive data in online accounts, according to a report by The Tech Herald. Using the leaked password list from STRATFOR, the open source intelligence service tha...

The Dangers of Second-Order Vulnerabilities

SAN FRANCISCO–There are dozens of new bugs discovered every week in popular applications, and many of them are painted as critical flaws that need to be patched immediately lest you risk the wrath of the attackers. However, in many cases, it’s not necessarily those highly publicized flaws that wi...

73 Percent of Users Reuse Banking Passwords

The majority of online banking customers reuse their online-banking login credentials on other websites, according to a new survey on password insecurity. Read the full article. The Register...

CVE-2008-3605: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in McAfee Encrypted USB Manager 3.1.0.0, when the Re-use Threshold for passwords is nonzero, allows remote attackers to conduct offline brute force attacks via unknown vectors...

CVE-2004-0823: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenLDAP 1.0 through 2.1.19, as used in Apple Mac OS 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 and possibly other operating systems, may allow certain authentication schemes to use hashed crypt passwords in the userPassword attribute as if they were plaintext passwords, which allows remote attackers to re-use hashed...

CVE-2002-0443

Microsoft Windows 2000 allows local users to bypass the policy that prohibits reusing old passwords by changing the current password before it expires, which does not enable the check for previous passwords...