Three Word Passwords

Introduction The National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have advocated the use of three random words for several years to create strong passwords, and that advice has been repeated recently by the National Crime Agency, and multiple police forces in the UK…. but just how strong are these passwords?...

Critical vulnerabilities found in popular Password Managers

By Sudais Asif In a study conducted by researchers from the University of York, 5 password managers were analyzed out of a total sample size of 19 in order to find vulnerabilities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical vulnerabilities found in popular Password Managers...

Fill your Boots with credential stuffing protections

Yet again another company suffers a ‘hack’ that turns out to be nothing more than a credential stuffing attack. This time Boots have stopped customers using advantage card points to pay for products. This is after 600,000 Tesco accounts were compromised in the same way. No systems at Boots were...

Password managers for all staff. Why the resistance?!

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve talked about passwords. I mention them in every talk I do. They are used in pretty much every service we test, they are the gatekeepers to our data, they are the protectors of our money and yet we still have not fixed them. As security professionals we...

Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived

A company you’ve never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier...

When can we get rid of passwords for good?

Or perhaps I should have asked, "Can we ever get rid of passwords for good?" The security world knows passwords are a problem. Products ship with default passwords that are never changed. People reuse old passwords or adopt easy-to-guess passwords that hackers easily defeat via brute force. Or...

Risks of Password Managers

Stuart Schechter writes about the security risks of using a password manager. It's a good piece, and nicely discusses the trade-offs around password managers: which one to choose, which passwords to store in it, and so on. My own Password Safe is mentioned. My particular choices about security an...

iCULeak - Tool To Find And Extract Credentials From Phone Configuration Files Hosted On Cisco CUCM

Tool to find and extract credentials from phone configuration files in environments managed by Cisco's CUCM Call Manager. When using Cisco's CUCM Call Manager, phone configuration files are stored on a TFTP server. These phone configuration files quite frequently contain sensitive data, including...

Threatpost Data: Password Managers Are Worth the Risk, Readers Say

Despite a high-profile memory-related vulnerability in password managers capturing headlines last week, a recent Threatpost poll found that 84 percent of respondents use password managers – while only 10 percent said they don’t due to security risks. There have been vulnerabilities found before i...

On the Security of Password Managers

There's new research on the security of password managers, specifically 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copies of the password lying around memory? Al...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Feb. 22

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring discuss the biggest news of the week ended Feb. 22, including a report about flaws in password managers, and a 19-year-old flaw found in WinRAR. The Threatpost team also discussed an upcoming webinar on Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. ET. Patrick Hevesi of...

Threatpost Poll: Are Password Managers Too Risky?

Do you use a password manager? Or do you think they pose too much of a risk, holding all the keys to the kingdom? Weigh in with our poll, below. A little background: There have been vulnerabilities found before in this kind of software, which is meant to take the headache out of remembering...

Password Manager Firms Blast Back at ‘Leaky Password’ Revelations

Secure password firms 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass are blasting a research report that highlights how a local adversary can crack open and steal passwords stored by the utilities. The uproar began Tuesday when lead researcher, Adrian Bednarek with Independent Security Evaluators ISE,...

Severe flaws in password managers let hackers extract clear-text passwords

By Waqas Password Managers aren’t as secure as you might assume - Security researchers claim that hackers can steal master passwords in PC memory. Password managers are considered as one of the most suitable options when it comes to keeping your online credentials safe from being hijacked and...

AZORult Stealer 2 Botnet SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: AZORult Stealer v2 Botnet - SQL injection Credit: Bilal KARDADOU URL: https://www.rekings.com/shop/azorult-stealer/ Product: 'AZORult Stealer v2 Botnet' Type: Paid Google Dork: N/A Description: Stealer of stored passwords, cookies,...

Flaw In Major Browsers Allows 3rd-Party Scripts to Steal Your Saved Passwords

Security researchers have uncovered how marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old bug in browsers' built-in password managers, which allow them to secretly steal your email address for targeted advertising across different browsers and devices. The major concern is that the same...

Changes in Password Best Practices

NIST recently published its four-volume SP800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, it makes three important suggestions when it comes to passwords: 1. Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because...

9 Popular Password Manager Apps Found Leaking Your Secrets

Is anything safe? It's 2017, and the likely answer is NO. Making sure your passwords are secure is one of the first line of defense – for your computer, email, and information – against hacking attempts, and Password Managers are the one recommended by many security experts to keep all your...

Best Free Password Manager Software You Can Download For 2018

When it comes to safeguarding your Internet security, installing an antivirus software or running a Secure Linux OS on your system does not mean you are safe enough from all kinds of cyber-threats. Today majority of Internet users are vulnerable to cyber attacks, not because they aren't using any...

Apple Patches 100+ Vulnerabilities in OS X, Safari, iOS

UPDATE Apple pushed out its latest operating system, El Capitan, yesterday, and while it boasts many security fixes, the update fails to address the outstanding vulnerability in Gatekeeper that came to light this week. The issue with Gatekeeper, as described yesterday by Patrick Wardle, the...