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Diceware-Password-Generator - Python Implementation Of The Diceware Password Generating Algorithm
Please Note - This Program Do Not StorePasswords In Any Form And All The Passwords Are Generated Locally Inside You Device. Diceware is a method used to generate cryptographically strong memorable passphrases. This is a python implementation of the diceware password generating algorithm. Inspired...
JSON Web Token Weak Secret
JSON Web Tokens can be signed to protect against data tampering. By using an asymmetric or a symmetric signing algorithm, the application computes a signature of the token data which will be verified during token decoding to ensure its integrity. When using a symmetric algorithm, the signature is...
Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water
The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by an individual or group of hackers that occurred Friday last week. If it hadnt been caught in time, at least 15,000 people could have been affected. In a Monday pres...
Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity
The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...
Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Roll Out Password Protection Tools
Two major browsers –Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – are rolling out default features, which they say will better help notify users if their password has been compromised as part of a breach or database exposure. Edge and Chrome’s moves signify a bigger push by browsers to solve the big “passwo...
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?...
dnsmasq security update
2.76-16.1 - Accept responses only on correct sockets CVE-2020-25684 - Use strong verification on queries CVE-2020-25685 - Handle multiple identical DNS queries better CVE-2020-25686 - Link against nettle for sha256 hash implementation...
CVE-2021-3139
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Linux SCSI target host, where an authenticated attacker could write to any block on the exported SCSI device backing store. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to send LIO block requests to the Linux system to overwrite data on t...
Hackers using smart home devices to live streaming swatting attacks
By Deeba Ahmed The F.B.I. is warning users to use strong credentials to prevent their smart devices from being used during swatting attacks. Here's how to. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers using smart home devices to live streaming swatting attacks...
CVE-2020-25153 MOXA NPort IAW5000A-I/O Series
The built-in web service for MOXA NPort IAW5000A-I/O firmware version 2.1 or lower does not require users to have strong passwords...
Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer Among Security Analytics Providers by Leading Industry Report
At Rapid7, we recognize that security professionals are facing a more challenging landscape than ever before. The mission of InsightIDR—our natively cloud SIEM—is to remove the drudgery and operational burdens associated with traditional approaches, and drive efficient, effective detection and...
IoT forecast: Running antivirus on your smart device?
In 2016, threat actors pulled off a basic but devastating botnet attack that harnessed the power of the Internet of Things IoT. After gathering a list of 61 default username and password combinations for IoT devices, threat actors scanned the Internet for open Telnet ports and, when they found a...
Empowering employees to securely work from anywhere with an internet-first model and Zero Trust
Like many this year, our Microsoft workforce had to quickly transition to a work from the home model in response to COVID-19. While nobody could have predicted the world’s current state, it has provided a very real-world test of the investments we have made implementing a Zero Trust security mode...
openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionpack-5_1 (openSUSE-2020-1533)
This update for rubygem-actionpack-51 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-8164: Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack. There is a strong parameters bypass vector in ActionPack. bsc1172177 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. C Tenable Network Security...
OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1575-1 Security update for rubygem-actionpack-5_1
This update for rubygem-actionpack-51 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8164: Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack. There is a strong parameters bypass vector in ActionPack. bsc1172177 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. This update was imported fr...
Security update for rubygem-actionpack-5_1 (important)
openSUSE Security Update: Security update for rubygem-actionpack-51 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1575-1 Rating: important References: 1172177 Cross-References: CVE-2020-8164 Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description:...
OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1536-1 Security update for rubygem-actionpack-5_1
This update for rubygem-actionpack-51 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8164: Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack. There is a strong parameters bypass vector in ActionPack. bsc1172177 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project...
openSUSE: Security Advisory for rubygem-actionpack-5_1 (openSUSE-SU-2020:1533-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...
Security update for rubygem-actionpack-5_1 (important)
openSUSE Security Update: Security update for rubygem-actionpack-51 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1536-1 Rating: important References: 1172177 Cross-References: CVE-2020-8164 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This updat...
OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1533-1 Security update for rubygem-actionpack-5_1
This update for rubygem-actionpack-51 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8164: Possible Strong Parameters Bypass in ActionPack. There is a strong parameters bypass vector in ActionPack. bsc1172177 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project...