Hydra 9.0 - Fast and Flexible Network Login Hacker

Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system. THIS TOOL IS FOR LEG...

CVE-2019-8350

The Simple - Better Banking application 2.45.0 through 2.45.3 fixed in 2.46.0 for Android was affected by an information disclosure vulnerability that leaked the user's password to the keyboard autocomplete functionality. Third-party Android keyboards that capture the password may store this...

Are Your Passwords Secure Enough?

Online passwords are sensitive data. When they end up in the wrong hands, your private information is at risk. Since cybercriminals are always searching out new ways to break into those online accounts, you need to watch over the passwords to your accounts as if they were your children. Since we...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by...

Secure access to your enterprise with Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5

Most lessons in cybersecurity are born out of necessity. In this case, it was my need for a haircut. Last weekend, I was reminded why it’s time to rethink the conventional wisdom about secure passwords and user access. I was making an appointment online and at the very end of the process, the...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Programmers Who Don't Understand Security Are Poor at Security

A university study confirmed the obvious: if you pay a random bunch of freelance programmers a small amount of money to write security software, they're not going to do a very good job at it. In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn...

US Tracks Journalists, Chelsea Manning Goes to Jail, and More Security News This Week

A surprisingly common password, an NSA spy program winds down, and more security news this week...

Default credentials

IBM Rational ClearCase 1.0.0.0 GIT connector does not sufficiently protect the document database password. An attacker could obtain the password and gain unauthorized access to the document database. IBM X-Force ID: 156583...

Sextortion Bitcoin scam makes unwelcome return

Heads up: a particularly nasty sextortion Bitcoin scam from at least the middle of 2018 is making the rounds once again. The scam involves making use of old breach dumps, then emailing someone from the list and reminding them of their old password. When something lands in your mailbox with “Hey,...

High severity vulnerability that affects many_versioned_gem

Logs password in plaintext Impact Logs the password used in plaintext. The password should masked in logs to prevent it leaking. Patches Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to? Workarounds none See also Are there any links users can visit to find out more information?...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.16 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.16, contains several new improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance, which includes new password security option, increased limit for virtual hosts that can be added to a subscription, added support...

Fedora 28 : icecast (2018-d4349a7ba3)

This release fixes buffer overflows in URL authentication code CVE-2018-18820, a crash in htpasswd authentication if no filename is set, a crash on xsltApplyStylesheet error, and a crash on malformed Opus streams. It also corrects global listener counter. It stops displaying hashed user passwords...

Here is a list of top 25 worst passwords of 2018

By Waqas SplashData, Inc. a leading password management application developer including SplashID has released a list of the 100 worst passwords of 2018. The company established the ranking after evaluating more than 5 million keywords leaked on the Internet this year. Their findings highlight the...

Step 2. Manage authentication and safeguard access: top 10 actions to secure your environment

This series outlines the most fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. We will provide advice on activities such as setting up identity management through active directory, malware protection, and more. In this post, we explain how to enable single...

CVE-2018-16095

CVE-2018-16095 affects Lenovo System Management Module (SMM) firmware prior to 1.06. When authentication fails, the SMM records hashed passwords to a debug log, potentially exposing credentials. Impact is credential exposure within the SMM environment as described by Lenovo’s vulnerability notes....

CVE-2018-13309

Cross-site scripting in password.htm in TOTOLINK A3002RU version 1.0.8 allows attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via the user's password...

CVE-2018-13309

Cross-site scripting in password.htm in TOTOLINK A3002RU version 1.0.8 allows attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via the user's password...

CVE-2008-7320

GNOME Seahorse through 3.30 allows physically proximate attackers to read plaintext passwords by using the quickAllow dialog at an unattended workstation, if the keyring is unlocked. NOTE: this is disputed by a software maintainer because the behavior represents a design decision...