Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

According to Keeper Security's Workplace Password Malpractice Report, many remote workers aren't following best practices for password security. Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security's Workplace Password...

CVE-2020-12732

DEPSTECH WiFi Digital Microscope 3 has a default SSID of Jetionxxxxxxxx with a password of 12345678...

5 Critical Steps to Recover From a Ransomware Attack

Hackers are increasingly using ransomware as an effective tool to disrupt businesses and fund malicious activities. A recent analysis by cybersecurity company Group-IB revealed ransomware attacks doubled in 2020, while Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that a ransomware attack will occur every 11...

DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password

It took only one dusty, no-longer-used password for the DarkSide cybercriminals to breach the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. last month, resulting in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruption and remains under investigation by the U.S. government and cybersecurity experts. Attacker...

CVE-2021-33190

CVE-2021-33190 – APISIX Dashboard 2.6 : The issue arises from using a risky IP acquisition function in the IP Allowed List, enabling bypass of network access restrictions when listen_host defaults to 0.0.0.0. This is fixed in APISIX Dashboard 2.6.1. Some sources also note an authentication bypass...

PT-2021-17183 · Bird · Bird

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BIRD versions 2.0.7 and earlier Description: The issue is related to the lack of password authentication functionality for BGP peers in BIRD, which may make products that use BIRD susceptible to route redirection, potentially leading to Denia...

CVE-2020-10729

A flaw was found in the use of insufficiently random values in Ansible. Two random password lookups of the same length generate the equal value as the template caching action for the same file since no re-evaluation happens. The highest threat from this vulnerability would be that all passwords a...

Rockwell Automation Micro 1400 安全漏洞

The Rockwell Automation MicroLogix 1400 is a programmable logic controller from Rockwell Automation, USA. A security vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation Micro800 and MicroLogix 1400. An attacker could use this vulnerability to intercept a password change request message containing a...

RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be

Impact A security-sensitive bug was discovered by Open Source Developer Erik Sundell of Sundell Open Source Consulting AB. The functions RandomAlphaNumericint and CryptoRandomAlphaNumericint are not as random as they should be. Small values of int in the functions above will return a smaller subs...

Why Password Hygiene Needs a Reboot

In today's digital world, password security is more important than ever. While biometrics, one-time passwords OTP, and other emerging forms of authentication are often touted as replacements to the traditional password, today, this concept is more marketing hype than anything else. But just becau...

CVE-2020-27150

CVE-2020-27150 affects multiple versions of Moxa NPort IA5000A Series industrial device servers. The vulnerability arises when exporting a device’s configuration, which can reveal passwords for all users and other sensitive data in their original form if a Pre-shared key has not been set. The con...

Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security’s Workplace Password Malpractice Report sought to find out. In February 2021, Keeper surveyed 1,000 employees in the U.S. about their work-related password habits — a...

CVE-2021-28128

Strapi up to version 3.6.0 contains an auth weakness in the admin panel: a user can change their own password without entering the current one. If an attacker gains any valid session, they can take over the account by changing the password. This aligns with the CVSS3.1/8.1 (HIGH) impact noted in ...

The vulnerability of the GateManager communication server, related to insufficient calculation of password hashes, allows attackers to view user passwords.

The vulnerability of the GateManager communication server is related to insufficient calculation of the password hash. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to remotely view user passwords...

CVE-2021-3154

An issue was discovered in SolarWinds Serv-U before 15.2.2. Unauthenticated attackers can retrieve cleartext passwords via macro Injection. NOTE: this had a distinct fix relative to CVE-2020-35481...

CVE-2021-31539

CVE-2021-31539 affects Wowza Streaming Engine prior to 4.8.8.01. In default installations, cleartext passwords are stored in conf/admin.password, allowing a local user to read usernames and passwords. Multiple connected sources confirm the issue and reference the 4.8.8.01 release as the fix. Reme...

CVE-2021-28492

Unisys Stealth (core) is affected: versions 5.x before 5.0.048.0, 5.1.x before 5.1.017.0, and 6.x before 6.0.037.0 store passwords in a recoverable format. The provided documents do not detail exploit paths or mitigations.

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2355-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca: Lock and Code S02E06

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs. In addition, we speak to Point3 Security chief strategist Chloé Messdaghi, HaveIBeenPwned founder Troy Hunt, and We Hack Purple founder and CEO Tanya Janca about security fatigue. Security fatigue is...

How to Vaccinate Against the Poor Password Policy Pandemic

Data breaches remain a constant threat, and no industry or organization is immune from the risks. From Fortune 500 companies to startups, password-related breaches continue to spread seemingly unchecked. As a result of the volume of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, hackers now have acce...