Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 21, 2019
On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years.
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WIRED Threat Level
MAY 21, 2019
On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years.
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Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
The hackers accessed company file servers that contained information about current and former employees from 2005 to 2020 and their beneficiaries and dependents. The investigation conducted by Canon found evidence of unauthorized accesses on its network between July 20 and August 6. ” reads the statement.
Security Affairs
MAY 31, 2021
The feature was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Kento published technical details of its attack in a blog post and also released proof-of-concept (PoC) code for his attack.
Security Affairs
APRIL 19, 2020
” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.”
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2020
It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. The company has over 13,000 employees for a revenue of around $8 Billion.
Security Affairs
MAY 2, 2019
The good news is that most recent versions of SAP software are configured by default to drop unauthorized connections, Since 2005, SAP is providing instructions on how to configure an ACL for the Message Server. Experts pointed out that the problem could impact many SAP products, including S/4HANA and NetWeaver Application Server (AS).
Security Affairs
APRIL 3, 2021
The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. District Court in Seattle. Based on our analysis to date, this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.
Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2022
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that were first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development began at least in 2005. . The virus was developed by the US and Israel to interfere with the nuclear enrichment program conducted by Iran in the plant of Natanz.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
The Final FFIEC Guidance has been issued and its main intent is to reinforce the 2005 Guidance's risk management framework and update the Agencies' expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” Microsoft experts explained that despite Boa being discontinued in 2005, many vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs) continue to use it. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.
Security Affairs
MARCH 27, 2022
The oldest flaws in the set of 66 recently added issues are dated back to 2005. The new vulnerabilities added to the catalog have to be addressed by federal agencies by April 15, 2022. Microsoft addressed this bug with the release of the February 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 Hawke had reportedly bragged about the money he earned from spam, but told friends he didn’t trust banks and decided to convert his earnings into gold and platinum bars. That sparked rumors that he had possibly buried his ill-gotten gains on his parents’ Massachusetts property.
Security Affairs
JULY 30, 2019
The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. She already appeare d in court and was ordered to remain in custody pending a detention hearing Thursday. ” states a press release published by Capital One.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 22, 2022
Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Experts pointed out that the Shellbot code first appeared in 2005 and is being used by several threat groups, it was also used in the massive crypto-mining campaign that was exploiting the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in March 2017. “
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
. “For example, the SEC brought a number of enforcement actions against individuals and companies who made false and misleading statements about alleged business opportunities in light of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ” reads the alert published by SEC.
Security Affairs
JULY 20, 2021
The discovery was casually made several months ago, while experts were configuring a brand new HP printer, and noticed that an old printer driver from 2005 called SSPORT.SYS was triggering an alert by Process Hacker.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
CEO Change Marks First Time Since 2005 Someone Other Than Udi Mokady Is In Charge CyberArk will promote Matt Cohen, 47, to CEO on April 3.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
dll library in 2005. .” The following video PoC shows how to gain full control over a targeted system by tricking the victims into opening maliciously crafted compressed archive file using WinRAR. The worst aspect of the story is that WinRAR development team had lost the source code of the UNACEV2.dll dll and released WINRar version 5.70
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. The leak consisted of publicly accessible environment files hosted on the flyflair.com website. According to SimilarWeb, the website attracts 3.2 million monthly visitors.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 25, 2023
According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. The company discovered the intrusion at the end of 2022, it believes the unauthorized access took place sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.
Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2021
The issue affects SAP Commerce versions 1808, 1811, 1905, 2005, 2011. The issue is described as a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Source Rules of SAP Commerce, could allow authorized users of the SAP Commerce Backoffice software to inject malicious code in source rules leveraging the scripting capabilities of the Rules engine.
ChiefTech
MAY 23, 2012
I wrote this in June 2005. The history of intranets is one of a slow burn of adoption (or innovation, if you like). But the pace of technology change is increasing , email is being challenged. is it time now to dust off the intranet imperative and think about about where we go next? What exactly is an intranet?
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The discovery was casually made several months ago, while experts were configuring a brand new HP printer, and noticed that an old printer driver from 2005 called SSPORT.SYS was triggering an alert by Process Hacker.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
dll library in 2005. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue a third-party library, called UNACEV2.DLL, DLL, that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive. The worst aspect of the story is that WinRAR development team had lost the source code of the UNACEV2.dll
Security Affairs
MAY 3, 2023
The platform has been active since 2005, according to the DoJ, it generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Authorities dismantled the Try2Check platform, a Card-Checking platform that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. DoJ charged the Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov with running the Card-Checking services.
Security Affairs
JUNE 13, 2023
According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. The company discovered the intrusion at the end of 2022, it believes the unauthorized access took place sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.
Krebs on Security
MAY 4, 2023
Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Attackers targeted Boa servers, which were discontinued in 2005, to compromise Tata and other critical infrastructure organizations around the world.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2019
“We made an error when implementing this functionality back in 2005: The admin console stored a copy of the unhashed password. Google investigated the problem and confirmed that it has no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected G Suite credentials. This practice did not live up to our standards.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2020
The unprotected archive was containing support requests submitted to the tech giant from 2005 to December 2019. The popular researcher Bob Diachenko found an unprotected database containing over 250 million customer support records along with some personally identifiable information. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.
Security Affairs
MARCH 28, 2023
million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach. .” The company announced that it will reimburse those customers who choose to replace their stolen ID documents. The statement also reported that approximately 6.1 94% of these records (5.7 million) were provided before 2013.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 28, 2022
ru’s original WHOIS records, which shows it was assigned in 2005 to a “private person” who used the email address lycefer@gmail.com. ru)was registered in 2005 to two men, one of whom was named Dmitry Sergeevich Starovikov. And maybe that was the point. and starovikov[.]com.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Founded in 2005 as a Software as a Service offering, Box was originally the antidote to the ftp and file sharing problem, with an attractively presented simple content management system. Sporting their [.]
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
ABE has undergone significant theoretical advancements since 2005. “You can still get useful information from the image, but if you don’t have the correct key, you won’t be able to decrypt certain attributes, such as a face or a license plate number.” Versatile benefits It’s taken a while to get here.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Then, in 2005 the clever people at the National Retail Federation decided that an online frenzy of shopping was needed the Monday after Thanksgiving. People arrived at the shops the night before waiting in line for the doors to open. We know this Monday as Cyber Monday.
Archives Blogs
OCTOBER 18, 2017
We are pleased to announce that after a significant transfer of records from the Revenue Services Department, the Archives can now make available property tax records up to 2005. 1978-1990 and 1992-2005: Property tax statements: series COV-S289. Map of assessment wards in the Municipality of Point Grey, with proposed changes, ~1927.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2019
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Krebs on Security
JULY 30, 2019
“The largest category of information accessed was information on consumers and small businesses as of the time they applied for one of our credit card products from 2005 through early 2019,” the statement continues.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 25, 2023
Zacks Elite sign-ups for the period 1999–2005 were accessed, including name, address, email address, phone number, and the password associated with Zacks.com.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal). w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.
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