Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cracking Windows passwords in 15 seconds or less with a special USB Rubber Ducky firmware and mimikatz. Build your own Dropbox alternative for free with OwnCloud – Shannon’s Installation and Configuration guide. Then Darren borrows a page from Mubix with The…
Yahoo to confirm hackers stole passwords for 200M accounts all the way back in 2012
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted passwords Sources close to the situation confirmed the massive data breach to Recode. Yahoo admitted The…
Passwords 2016
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans General Information The 11th International Conference on Passwords 5-7 December 2016 Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany The Passwords conference was launched as a response to the lack of robustness and usability of current personal authentication practices and solutions. Starting as a small workshop…
Reddit resets 100,000 passwords in wake of LinkedIn hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Reddit has reset 100,000 passwords after hackers stole people’s credentials from other sites to take over their accounts. The social network alerted its user base yesterday to the fact it had sent out the reset notices over the past fortnight, following…
Millions of LinkedIn passwords and email addresses published online
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. LinkedIn has revealed millions of its users’ email addresses and passwords have been published online from a security breach that occurred in 2012. The leak…
Email address gives FBI lead on record theft of user IDs, passwords
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker who once advertised having access to user information for websites such as Facebook and Twitter has been linked to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials, the FBI wrote in court documents. The hacker, known as “mr.grey,”…
Securing Passwords with Bcrypt Hashing Function
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Passwords are the first line of defense against cyber criminals. It is the most vital secret of every activity we do over the internet and also a final check to get into any of your user account, whether it is your…
How Heartbleed Bug Exposes Your Passwords to Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Are you safe from the critical bug Heartbleed?? OpenSSL- the encryption technology used by millions of websites to encrypt the communication and is also used to protect our sensitive data such as e-mails, passwords or banking information. But a tiny, but most…
Simply lengthy wrong passwords bypass Android 5.x lockscreen; PIN & Pattern Safe
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to one of their recent discoveries, there’s a bug that affects 21 percent of Android devices in use and it basically allows anyone to unlock your password-protected device by bypassing the lock screen with an extremely lengthy password. In August,…
Study finds that Android lock patterns tend to be too simple, just like passwords
A study conduced by a woman named Marte Løge, a graduate of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, found that Android users choose to set similar lock patterns that might be too easy for others to figure out. The study looked at 4000 patterns created and discovered that 77% of…
