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That's where someone monitors the SMB1 traffic on your network, and replies to new users on your network to say, "Oh, really sorry, we're very old fashioned here. Please don't send encrypted passwords to log in, use plaintext passwords instead.". Before you blame Samba for having had this bug stop to think that you shouldn't still be using SMB1 at all, and that Samba, like Windows, doesn't enable it by default.
An astonishing piece of vulnerability probing gave infosec researchers a way into to Microsoft's management controls for Azure Cosmos DB - with full read and write privileges over customer databases. The so-called ChaosDB vuln gave Wiz researchers "Access to the control panel of the underlying service" that hosts Azure Cosmos, Microsoft's managed cloudy document database service, they said.
A security researcher has figured out a way to dump a user's unencrypted plaintext Microsoft Azure credentials from Microsoft's new Windows 365 Cloud PC service using Mimikatz. On August 2nd, Microsoft launched their Windows 365 cloud-based desktop service, allowing users to rent Cloud PCs and access them via remote desktop clients or a browser.
Mozilla Thunderbird spent the last couple of months saving some users' OpenPGP keys in plain text - but that's now been patched, the author of both the bug and the patch fixing it has told The Register. The vulnerability, assessed as "Low" impact by Mozilla, existed in the free open source Thunderbird email client between version 78.8.1 and version 78.10.1 after a crestfallen maintainer realised carefully designed protections were in fact not protecting users' private OpenPGP keys.
In a message to The Register, Kumar said that on November 19, 2019, he told SolarWinds "Their update server was accessible with the password 'solarwinds123' which is leaking in the public Github repo. They fixed the issue and replied to me on." Using the exposed account name and password, he was able to upload a file to prove the system was insecure, he said he wrote in his report to SolarWinds, adding that a hacker could use the credentials to upload a malicious executable and add it to a SolarWinds update.
A security researcher has analyzed three hardware-based password vaults and discovered that credentials are stored in plaintext and survive hardware resets. read more
What could be worse than your router leaking its administrative login credentials in plaintext? Cybersecurity researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs have discovered multiple security...
Biostar 2 goes supernova after Israeli duo's probings Two infosec researchers found 27 million personal data records, including a million people's fingerprints, exposed to the public along with...
Robinhood, a California-based financial services company that provides a popular commission-free stock trading app, informed some users that their passwords were stored in plaintext. read more
Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.