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Stuck in Traffic – PwnedPasswordsDLL

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The first thing hackers learn? Password cracking. And the first thing password crackers do? Try hashes from recent breaches. So it makes sense to prevent users from setting passwords to those found in, say, Troy Hunt’s list of 306 million. That’s been difficult to do. But I recently found PwnedPasswordsDLL, which adds a control to the password change process.

Checking for Breached Passwords in Active Directory
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Stuck in Traffic – Verizon and the S3 Bucket

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an easy way for apps to store data in the cloud. Too easy. And not only easy to use, but also, easy to misconfigure. Verizon learned this the hard way when a third-party’s S3 bucket was found left open, resulting in a breach of six million subscribers. (Pro-tip: use scripts like Bucket Finder to check for open S3 instances.)

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