TwoMillion-Machine-Writeup

Acerca de la máquina TwoMillion es una máquina Linux de dificultad Easy que fue lanzada para celebrar la llegada de 2 millones de usuarios en HackTheBox. La máquina incluye una versión antigua de la plataforma HackTheBox que contiene el antiguo código de invitación pirateable. Después de hackear ...

Caveat Cyber Emptor: 3 Ways to Protect Sensitive Personal Data this Online Shopping Season

The phrase caveat emptor, Latin for “let the buyer beware”, has long been a warning to carefully scrutinize the quality and suitability of goods before making a purchase. In the world of eCommerce, caveat emptor has a whole new meaning. After meticulously researching any number of crowdsourcing...

The Wages of Password Re-use: Your Money or Your Life

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. When cybercriminals develop the same habit, it can eventually cost them their freedom. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is...

Microsoft Passwords Research on Re-Use

Forget what you’ve been told about password re-use and weak credentials. If we’re to believe collaborating researchers from Microsoft and Carelton University, neither is such a bad idea. Flying in the face of conventional pleading from experts that “password” is a bad password, new research puts...

Password Strength Testers Work for Important Accounts

Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you’ve chosen is weak or strong based on the website’s policy. The effectiveness of these meters in influencing users to choose stronger passwor...

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' Hacked

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' announced that, they were hacked in a recent attack and hacker potentially able to compromise general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of partial database. "Even though this information was accessed, the...