Familiar ransomware develops an appetite for passwords to third-party sites
Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new variant of Gafgyt targeting machines with weak SSH passwords.
The largest password compilation with nearly ten billion unique passwords was leaked on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews research team believes the leak poses severe dangers to users prone to reusing passwords.
The king is dead. Long live the king. Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest password compilation with a staggering 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. The file with the data, titled rockyou2024.txt, was posted on July 4th by forum user ObamaCare.
TeamViewer says that a recently discovered breach appears to be limited to its internal corporate IT network. The software company has attributed it to a hacking operation associated with Russian intelligence.
Today we loaded 16.5M email addresses and 13.5M unique passwords provided by law enforcement agencies into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) following botnet takedowns in a campaign they've coined Operation Endgame. That link provides an excellent overview so start there then come back to this blog post which
Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.
Security researchers Can Yoleri, Murat Özfidan and Egemen Koçhisarlı with SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company that helps organizations find security weaknesses, discovered an open and public storage server hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service that was storing internal information relating to Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
The Azure storage server housed code, scripts and configuration files containing passwords, keys and credentials used by the Microsoft employees for accessing other internal databases and systems.
A vulnerability has been discovered in the 'util-linux' library that could allow unprivileged users to put arbitrary text on other users' terminals using the 'wall' command.
Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development.
Roughly 25 million of the passwords have never been seen before by widely used service.
AIOS bills itself as an "all-in-one" security solution. A just-fixed bug undermined that.
Comparing the password strength of 5 hacking forum users that were compromised with info-stealers - Hackforums.net,...
Such credentials in the wrong hands could be dangerous, experts say, potentially allowing physical access to data centers. The affected data center operators say the stolen information didn’t pose risks for customer IT systems.
Bitwarden and other password managers are being targeted in Google ads phishing campaigns to steal users' password vault credentials.
With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords.
Users often store passwords in third-party software for convenience – but credential gathering techniques can target this behavior.
We examined the password policies of 120 of the most popular English-language websites in the world.
Nombreux sont ceux qui utilisent les mêmes mots de passe faibles, encore et encore. Découvrez les 200 mots de passe les plus utilisés dans le monde en 2021.
Cet article contient des listes des mots de passe les plus courants, selon différentes sources.
This is a list of the most common passwords, discovered in various data breaches. Common passwords generally are not recommended on account of low password strength
