You know what they say about passwords… You’re only one weak password away from a breach. Despite the increasing sophistication of hacker technologies and tools, the easiest step of a hack is still cracking the password. In fact, it’s so easy that many times it doesn’t even involve guessing at all. The scariest part about this is that regardless of how secure your password is, … [Read more...]
Chinese Hackers Infect 50k Servers
What a headline, huh? That’s quite the number of infected servers found during a recently discovered and tracked malware campaign. At a very high level, this campaign focused on mass-scanning servers for specific services, cataloguing servers that responded, then feeding that list into a password brute force tool. Once infiltrated, malicious payloads were used to perform … [Read more...]
SocNet Data Breaches – Daily Security Byte EP. 266
With the amount of data breaches in the headlines lately it's easy to get overwhelmed with yet another user record or password leak. Nonetheless, if you've ever been a Myspace or Tumblr user, you should pay attention to the headlines at least long enough to change your passwords. In today's video, I share the impact of two social network data leaks. (Episode Runtime: … [Read more...]
Twitch Account Breach – Daily Security Byte EP.50
A popular video streaming site, Twitch, warned of a site-wide account reset. If you're a Twitch user, learn how to protect your passwords in today's InfoSec video. (Episode Runtime: 1:43) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMLCpo8G0pE EPISODE REFERENCES: Twitch account warning blog post - Twitch Article on all Twitch accounts getting reset - Network … [Read more...]
