Collaborate Disseminate
SpyCloud researchers recovered more than 4.6 billion pieces of personally identifiable information and nearly 1.5 billion stolen account credentials from 854 breach sources in 2020, the company announced in its 2021 Credential Exposure Report. Credenti… Continue reading Credential exposure trends: You need a better password
I have a CloudFormation template with parameters in my private Github repo. I’d like to make it public.
I have vpc-id and subnet-id in my parameters.json. I have seen this type of data being scrubbed in tutorials etc, but I have a hard tim… Continue reading Are there any risks associated with publishing AWS VPC ids, Subnet ids?
25.9 million business account credentials and over 543 million breach assets tied to employees in the Fortune 1000 are readily available on the criminal underground, SpyCloud reveals. Password reuse risk “Year after year, studies show that the us… Continue reading Rampant password reuse puts companies and customers at risk
The number of annual credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020, according to F5 research. There was a 46% downturn in the number of spilled credentials during the same period. The average spill size also declined, falling from 63 mill… Continue reading Credential spill incidents nearly doubled since 2016
One data breach can lead to another. Because so much of the data stolen in breaches ends up for sale on the dark web, a threat actor can purchase authentication credentials — the emails and passwords — of the organization’s employees without having to steal them directly. With that information in hand, threat actors have […]
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My employer has a system that clinicians use to capture video data for patient bookings. This comprises two applications running on Windows:
A GUI application (Electron/Javascript)
A local service (C#).
Both applications need to access o… Continue reading How to securely share credentials between two local applications?
The retail and hospitality sector is fixing software flaws at a faster rate than five other sectors, a Veracode analysis of more than 130,000 applications reveals. The ability to find and fix potential security defects quickly is a necessity, particula… Continue reading Retail and hospitality sector fixing software flaws at a faster rate than others
Scenario: a medium company (750 users).
Some of them use online services to store their credentials (office email and other web applications), like lastpass and 1password.
The IT wants to audit the credentials: with the collaboration of th… Continue reading intranet users: auditing of credentials vs online vaults (example: lastpass, 1password)
It’s safe to assume that pretty much everyone is ready to move on from 2020. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, political battles, and social unrest, this has been a stressful year in so many ways. It has also been a very active year for cybercriminals and… Continue reading 2020 set the stage for cybersecurity priorities in 2021
The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected data in the cloud.” This is related to the SolarWinds hack I have previously written about… Continue reading NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)