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Bad actor obtained passwords for servers, home routers, and smart devices by scanning internet for devices open to the Telnet port. Continue reading Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices
Facebook will (finally!) explicitly tell users who use Facebook Login to log into third-party apps what information those apps are harvesting from their FB account. At the same time, users will be able to react quickly if someone managed to compromise … Continue reading Facebook users will be notified when their credentials are used for third-party app logins
There must be a handy way to securely store, say, GCP key.json somewhere on my machine and access it whenever I’m deploying stuff. Backup to cloud is a must. The Apple’s Keychain access seems troublesome. Is there a better so… Continue reading How do I securely store credentials and key files on my mac?
My host machine is running Windows 10. I’ve installed VirtualBox and use it to run an Ubuntu VM. Inside the VM I use Firefox to do all of my web browsing that doesn’t involve entering sensitive data like important passwords, financial da… Continue reading Is using virtualbox for web browsing worth it for added security?
I would like to get some experts’ advice regarding the way I resolved the following issue:
Let’s say my personal app is hosted as an Azure App Service on https://example.azurewebsites.net
The JS client code running withing t… Continue reading CORS issue with WebApp on Azure + AAD
Social Engineering Robocalls target and sort the vulnerable: sometimes under the guise of a three later agency. Sorting is achieved when the victim interacts with the phone by pushing a button. After being sorted, tactics i… Continue reading Do US government agencies robocall the public? [closed]
New account fraud increased 27.8% worldwide YTD in 2019, compared to full-year 2018 results, and more than 100% compared to 2014 levels, Jumio reveals. Surprisingly, attempted new account fraud was 19% less during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend … Continue reading New account fraud has more than doubled since 2014
I have a secure and private aws ec2 environment but I need to do some backups of mongodb, postgresql, so I have a separate ec2 instance for doing backup and occasionally allow 80 and 443 to allow install/update software on ba… Continue reading How to secure backup scripts so I do not have to hardcode passwords?
What technical methods can be implemented to force Nextcloud Pi users from sharing authentication credentials? For example, In the military, this is halted with a certificates held in a smartchip in the ID (CAC) card. Ideal… Continue reading Preventing Credential Sharing
On my d-link router, a DIR-819, there is by default an open SSH port (22), which accepts a default username and password, namely root/root and admin/admin.
I found this by running a network scanner and it identified these de… Continue reading How to change the default root password on my DIR-819 router (SSH login flaw)?