Collaborate Disseminate
The passwords of more than 2.2 million users of a gaming and cryptocurrency website were dumped online after dual data breaches. Continue reading Hackers Dump 2.2M Gaming, Cryptocurrency Passwords Online
This week, a botnet that’s targeting 1.5 million RDP servers worldwide, VLC Player gets patched for two highly severe bugs, thousands of images stolen from US border hack, Troy Hunt looks to sell I Been Pwnd, and a near-ubiquitous critical Mi… Continue reading June 11, 2019 – Hack Naked News #222
“Project Svalbard” has commenced, as Hunt looks for the right company to take over the password-focused service. Continue reading Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned
As the mergers and acquisitions activity in the cybersecurity industry continues at a feverish pace, one of its more consumer-friendly brands — the breach-notification database Have I Been Pwned — is hoping for a new home. Have I Been Pwned, a website where visitors can check if their email address has been compromised, is exploring a sale, founder Troy Hunt revealed in a blog post Tuesday. Since its debut in 2013 the site has won praise as a uniquely free and user-friendly way for individuals to get information about incidents. Nearly 3 million people have subscribed to its breach notifications, and 120,000 individuals use it to monitor web domains. Now, Hunt says he will be working with the mergers and acquisitions team at the professional service firm KPMG to search for a potential buyer. He’s calling the process Project Svalbard — an allusion to a massive bank of plant seeds in Norway. “[I]’m already […]
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Poor password hygiene continues to plague the security industry, Troy Hunt said during Infosecurity Europe. Continue reading Troy Hunt: ‘Messy’ Password Problem Isn’t Getting Better
A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists. Continue reading Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’
Threatpost editors break down the top headlines from the week ended Jan. 18. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 18
Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has revealed a huge cache of breached email addresses and passwords, which it has named Collection #1. Continue reading Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records
My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it “the largest collection ever of breached data found.” But in an interview with the apparent seller, KrebsOnSecurity learned that it is not even close to the largest gathering of stolen data, and that it is at least two to three years old. Continue reading 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old
Thousands of individual breaches make up the database, one of the largest troves of stolen credentials ever seen. Continue reading Cyber-Jackpot: 773M Credentials Dumped on the Dark Web