Senate Passes Bill Aimed At Combating Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Senate has approved new legislation aimed at helping government agencies and private-sector companies combat ransomware attacks. The legislation comes as local governments and schools continue to be hit by sophisticated – and in some cases coordinated – ransomware attacks. The proposed...

HELK - The Hunting ELK

The Hunting ELK or simply the HELK is one of the first open source hunt platforms with advanced analytics capabilities such as SQL declarative language, graphing, structured streaming, and even machine learning via Jupyter notebooks and Apache Spark over an ELK stack. This project was developed...

Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned

Citing overwhelming demands on his time, Troy Hunt is looking for a buyer for his site, Have I Been Pwned HIBP. HIBP offers a free service for consumers wanting to know if their user names and passwords have been compromised in a data breach; it also offers commercial services that include alerts...

Malwarebytes Labs wins best cybersecurity vendor blog at InfoSec’s European Security Blogger Awards

Infosec Europe is now well underway, and last night was the annual EU Security Blogger Awards, where InfoSecurity Magazine: …recognises the best blogs in the industry as first nominated by peers and then judged by a panel of mostly respected industry experts. Malwarebytes Labs was announced as...

Google Maps help Police catch serial masturbator after 4-year hunt

By Carolina An alleged "serial masturbator" who has been causing disturbance among citizens around Brisbane’s inner-city for the past four years has finally been caught by the Queensland Police thanks to Google Maps. Google Maps: Hubby divorces wife after finding her on Street View with another m...

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessl...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Troy Hunt on Passwords

Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why insert thing here isn't going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have...

Public Shaming of Companies for Bad Security

Troy Hunt makes some good points, with good examples...

What ‘Nightingale Floors’ From Historical Japan Can Teach Us About Intrusion Suppression

Multinational corporations are under siege from a multiplicity of threat actors. The cyber arms bazaar that flourishes around the world has allowed for criminals and nations to wage long-term campaigns against corporations and government agencies. These cyber criminals stalk businesses and...

Revamp of ‘Pwned Passwords’ Boosts Privacy and Size of Database

Researcher Troy Hunt announced a major revamp of his Pwned Passwords tool that includes more passwords, added features and tightened privacy for organizations who want to check if their in-use passwords can easily be cracked. In V2 of Pwned Passwords, launched last week, Hunt updated his password...

Leaky RootsWeb Server Exposes Some Ancestry.com User Data

Ancestry.com said it closed portions of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigated a leaky server that exposed 300,000 passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet. In a statement issued over the weekend, Chief Information Security Officer of Ancestry.com...

Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark

Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, has closed up shop. A source close to the matter says the service was taken down in a law enforcement sting that may be tied to the Dutch police raid of the...

This Retail Website Considers Password Security Optional

Most gaping security holes are terrible mistakes. But for one major Hong Kong-based online retailer called Strawberrynet, its security shortcomings are a feature. Like many ecommerce sites, registered users have an option for express checkout. What makes beauty-products website Strawberrynet uniq...

pwned - A command-line tool for querying the 'Have I been pwned?' service

A command-line tool for querying Troy Hunt 's Have I been pwned? service using the hibp Node.js module. Installation npm install pwned -g Usage Usage: pwned option | command Commands: ba options get all breaches for an account username or email address breaches options get all breaches in the...

Syhunt ScanTools - Console Web Vulnerability Scan Tools

Syhunt released the new generation of its console-based scan tools, simply called ScanTools. The first release of ScanTools comes with four console applications: - ScanURL ,ScanCode , ScanLog and ScanConf , incorporating the functionality of the scanners Syhunt Hybrid/Dynamic, Syhunt Code, Syhunt...

Mercenary Linux

Mercenary-Linux is a “new-era” lightweight distribution of mostly Dockerized tools built for field expedient hunting, forensics, and malware analysis. This problem birthed MHF Mercenary Hunt Framework which allows the hunt team to easily perform hunt operations within a framework that aggregates...

Nextcloud: help.nextcloud Email Address/Username enumeration

Hello nextcloud, i have another findings, i found that email address enumeration and or username enumeration is possible in signup/registration and forgot password under https://help.nextcloud.com/ , email/username enumeration can be use in any malicious intent by a malicious minded user. - For...

Millions of Stolen MySpace, Tumblr Credentials Being Sold Online

Hackers are peddling roughly 427 million passwords belonging to users of MySpace, a social network that in its heyday was one of the most visited sites on the internet. The same service that claimed to have information on 164 million LinkedIn users earlier this month is now boasting to have...

LinkedIn Latest Contributor to Breach Fatigue

The obvious takeaway from last week’s LinkedIn data breach revelation where we learned hackers were selling 117 million LinkedIn usernames, email addresses and passwords from a 2012 breach is, change your passwords-and often. The not so obvious takeaways come from noted security expert Troy Hunt,...