Hacker News with Generative AI: Security Breaches

FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Users–Hackers Gain Access to Accounts (forbes.com)
“Cybercriminals are gaining access to email accounts,” the FBI warned this week, even when accounts are protected by multifactor authentication (MFA).

Cybersecurity, Email, Hacking, Security Breaches

14 points by miles 17 days ago | 1 comments

Critical hardcoded SolarWinds credential now exploited in the wild (theregister.com)
A critical, hardcoded login credential in SolarWinds' Web Help Desk line has been exploited in the wild by criminals, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has added the security blunder to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog.

Cybersecurity, Software, Exploits, Security Breaches

7 points by romperstomper 35 days ago | 0 comments

Red team hacker on how she breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy (theregister.com)
A hacker walked into a "very big city" building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or elevators, determined to steal sensitive data by breaking into both the physical space and the corporate Wi-Fi network.

Cybersecurity, Hacking, Security Breaches, Corporate Security

73 points by thunderbong 51 days ago | 59 comments

Potential Attacker on the Company Payroll (twitter.com)

Cybersecurity, Security Breaches, Social Engineering

5 points by tuyguntn 63 days ago | 0 comments

CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July's global IT meltdown (theverge.com)

Cybersecurity, Congress, IT, Security Breaches

7 points by hassanahmad 83 days ago | 0 comments

ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web (theverge.com)

Security Breaches, Cybersecurity, Dark Web

9 points by CKMo 104 days ago | 0 comments

CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery (bitsight.com)