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Human error, credential misuse and disgruntled employees aren’t the most common threats security leaders have to face — but the complexities of these incidents make insider threats the stuff of CISO nightmares.
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How should large companies store credentials for important systems, such as root access to an integral machine (e.g. high-traffic web server), or social media accounts?
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I am developing an application where one can add SSH credentials for servers and then an automated python script can fetch those credentials to login to the server and perform certain automated tasks.
The issue that I am fa… Continue reading Storing SSH credentials, need to decrypt them later for connection by python script
Organizations need a privileged account management (PAM) solution that integrates seamlessly with the existing security environment — and helps security teams enforce least privilege policies.
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While it’s a simple payload for now, researchers said Vega has the ability to evolve into something more concerning in the future. Continue reading Vega Stealer Malware Takes Aim at Chrome, Firefox
I have obtained some hashes using crackmapexec and dumping from the LSA process. The hashes are in this form (data below is fake):
adm_name:c6f132a235209036744ba5d303bd5d9b:SOME.ORGANISATION.COM:ORGANISATION:::
The hash id… Continue reading Using Windows LSA Hashes obtained from crackmapexec
A WordPress security best practice that is easy to implement is having a unique WordPress login (username and password) for every person who accesses your website or multisite network. Sharing the same WordPress login details with groups of people can … Continue reading WordPress security issues caused by sharing WordPress login details
Using emails as usernames for webapps is a convenient way to avoid the “yet another online username” problem. As such, by using this approach, the emails should be easily available in the backend to do user/pass checks.
Howe… Continue reading How to handle emails as usernames under GDPR?
Credentials in the form of SSH keys can be stored in memory using SSH Agent; However, if clicking the wrong link, or running a malicious program they can also be snatched from memory and sent somewhere else; which is why ssh-add offers th… Continue reading How can I safely use Get-Credential to obtain a username and password for a set period of time for use as command line arguments?
Is there an alternative to properties files for managing DB (and other service) connection credentials for a group of web applications? Couldn’t you use something similar to a service registry?
For example, the client web a… Continue reading Managing db credentials for web applications