Wednesday, February 26, 2025

NEW Crime Forum Passwords LEAKED 244 Million NEW February 26, 2025

 Information from many stealer logs totaling 1.5TB containing 33 billion records. 
 Thus 494 million unique website and email pairs.
 284 million unique email addresses
 244 million passwords not seen before added to 199 million already leaked.

 The major crime forum cited: ALIEN TXTBASE.

 To check for your information/password anonymously:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

 To check Have I Been Pwned:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

PLEASE Consider Multi Factor Authentication, Passkeys, Authenticators, Hardware keys, Passphrases, increased monitoring of all your sensitive accounts. 

Cyber Security SIG Seminars:
Passwords, Passkeys, and more
After Actions Frauds, Scams, IDentity Theft

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Apple stops signing iOS 18.3

 Removed the ability to downgrade from iOS 18.3.1 to 18.3

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Android February 2025 Security Update

   Google has warned of 50 cyber security flaws fixed in the February 2025 Android security update.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-02-01

 Google Pixel phones should show the update available.
Other manufacturers will offer the update later if the Android device is capable of the update.

Microsoft Windows Patch Tuesday February 11, 2025

  Microsoft released patches/fixes for 63 vulnerabilities for the February 11 patch Tuesday.

 A total of 141 vulnerabilities, 4 critical, 2 currently being exploited.
This should indicate the potential for significant impact if exploited.

Monday, February 10, 2025

Apple Updates 10-Feb-2025

  Updates to iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1, macOS 15.3.1, tvOS 18.3.1, watchOS 11.3.1, and others likely to follow.

 Updates to iOS 17, macOS 14, and macOS 13 released as well.

 This update addresses security vulnerabilities in USB restricted mode and other vulnerabilities. Apple does not provide much detail on the vulnerabilities addressed, which might indicate the severity of the vulnerabilities.