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Password Security: Three Things to Do Today

13 March 2019 Gate 15

Three simple things that anyone can to do to maintain reasonable password security.

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  • Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers 22 March 2019
    nakedsecurity.sophos.com - An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolling through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accou…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109076071419465729
  • Catholic churches in France vandalized, set on fire & smeared with excrement (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 22 March 2019
    rt.com - The Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, where the Da Vinci Code movie was filmed, was set on fire just after midday mass on Sunday, Le Parisien reports. Firefighters and police said the blaze was an arso…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109075494006411265
  • UN: Ebola increasing in Congo due to ‘security challenges’ 22 March 2019
    washingtonpost.com - By Associated Press March 22 at 6:32 AM LONDON — The World Health Organization says Ebola has spiked in Congo in recent days because of “increased security challenges,” a week after its director-gene…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109073638869876737
  • The Lawyer's Duty When Client Confidential Information is Hacked From the Law Firm | JD Supra 22 March 2019
    jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109072607092051970
  • Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin abused by two hacker groups | ZDNet 22 March 2019
    zdnet.com - Two cyber-security companies providing firewall plugins for WordPress sites have detected attacks abusing a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin. At least two hacker groups have been …Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109072341181571077
  • APT32 ramps up targeting of global car companies - CyberScoop 22 March 2019
    cyberscoop.com - A Vietnamese hacking group has been aggressively targeting multinational automotive companies in an apparent bid to support the country’s domestic auto industry, researchers who closely track the gro…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109071868730978307
  • Boeing sold safety feature that could have prevented 737 MAX crashes as an option 22 March 2019
    arstechnica.com - The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system that led to their demises. Both of the…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109071666418802688
  • Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed 22 March 2019
    theregister.co.uk - An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm. The handsets spaffed the data in clear text over t…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109071549376667648
  • Don't have a heart attack but your implanted defibrillator can be hacked over the air (by someone who really wants you dead) 22 March 2019
    theregister.co.uk - Medical gear maker Medtronic is once again at the center of a hacker panic storm. This time, a number of its heart defibrillators, implanted in patients' chests, can, in certain circumstances, be wir…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109071348578615299
  • 13-Year-Old Allegedly Hacked Teacher Account to Create Student 'Hit List' 22 March 2019
    bleepingcomputer.com - A 13-year-old is currently under investigation after he allegedly used a teacher's credentials to hack into his school district's computing system to steal fellow students' personal information and c…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109069638980259842
  • Hacking Microcontroller Firmware through a USB 22 March 2019
    securelist.com - In this article, I want to demonstrate extracting the firmware from a secure USB device running on the Cortex M0. The manufacture of counterfeit and unlicensed products is widespread in the world of …Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109054004477202432
  • Release 2.5.172 PROD Update 22 March 2019
    support.heimdalsecurity.com - On the 15th of February, we have completed an update of Heimdal devices from 2.5.170RC to 2.5.190RC, including the production versions from 2.5.171 / 2.5.172 to 2.5.173. More than 95% of the active m…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109053837774594049
  • Remote command injection through an endpoint security product 22 March 2019
    pentestpartners.com - We discovered command injection in a popular endpoint security product, Heimdal Thor. By using the product, customers PCs were exposed to compromise. Irony++ Heimdal fixed the issue quickly and respo…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109053790211198978
  • 0day Vulnerability in Easy WP SMTP Affects Thousands of Sites 22 March 2019
    blog.sucuri.net - Vulnerability: Arbitrary Option Update The Easy WP SMTP plugin authors have released a new update, fixing a very critical 0day vulnerability. When leveraged, this vulnerability gives unauthenticated …Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109053497977327616
  • Dissecting BokBot’s “Man in the Browser” | CrowdStrike 22 March 2019
    crowdstrike.com - This article is a continuation of CrowdStrike’s recent blog, “Digging Into BokBot’s Core Module,” and provides a detailed analysis of the inner workings of the BokBot proxy module — a complex piece o…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109053437801582592
  • World Happiness Report 2019 22 March 2019
    worldhappiness.report - This is the 7th World Happiness Report. The first was released in April 2012 in support of a UN High level meeting on “Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”. That report presente…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109051957065515014
  • GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaxxers Who Raise Money to Spread Misinformation 22 March 2019
    thedailybeast.com - Anti-vaxxers have long used GoFundMe to raise money to spread their dangerous message—but now the site is cutting them off, The Daily Beast has learned. “Campaigns raising money to promote misinforma…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109051558573105155
  • All Charlottesville schools closed after violent and racist threat on 4Chan 22 March 2019
    news.vice.com - Want the best from VICE News in your inbox? Sign up here. Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia — the site of 2017’s violent “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally — closed Thursday due to a threat…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109051510065893377
  • Attackers throw explosive at Russian consulate in Athens 22 March 2019
    reuters.com - ATHENS (Reuters) - Attackers on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at the Russian consulate in Athens early on Friday, causing no injuries and slight damage, police said. There was no immediate claim …Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109035374079365120
  • China: Car drives into crowd killing multiple people | DW | 22.03.2019 22 March 2019
    dw.com - A car has reportedly plowed into a crowd in China, killing seven people. Police shot the driver after the early morning incident. Seven people have died and seven were injured on Thursday after a car…Tweeted by @Gate_15_Analyst https://twitter.com/Gate_15_Analyst/status/1109035212359512065

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