All posts tagged "password security"
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4.2KData BreachKey Lesson from Microsoft’s Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account
In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium)....
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2.5KData BreachTake an Offensive Approach to Password Security by Continuously Monitoring for Breached Passwords
Passwords are at the core of securing access to an organization’s data. However, they also come with security vulnerabilities that stem from...
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5.1KData BreachKey Cybersecurity Tools That Can Mitigate the Cost of a Breach
IBM’s 2023 installment of their annual “Cost of a Breach” report has thrown up some interesting trends. Of course, breaches being costly...
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827Data BreachDoes Your Help Desk Know Who’s Calling?
Phishing, the theft of users’ credentials or sensitive data using social engineering, has been a significant threat since the early days of...
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3.1KData BreachLastPass Hack: Engineer’s Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach
The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in...
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2.7KData BreachUsing Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack
Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one...
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4.5KData SecurityPassword Security & Internet Protection in 2022
How to protect your passwords? Which tool to use? How password managers secure our internet browsing and much more you can find...
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308Data BreachXKCD Forum Hacked – Over 562,000 Users’ Account Details Leaked
XKCD—one of the most popular webcomic platforms known for its geeky tech humor and other science-laden comic strips on romance, sarcasm, math,...
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343Data BreachSlack Resets Passwords For Users Who Hadn’t Changed It Since 2015 Breach
If you use Slack, a popular cloud-based team collaboration server, and recently received an email from the company about a security incident,...
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307NewsWhy Password-Based Authentication is Not Secure
FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) proposed a web authentication standard that aims to replace the traditional...
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254NewsRegular Change of Internet Passwords Not Necessary
The communications ministry in Japan has reportedly decided that it is not necessary to keep changing internet passwords regularly. The ministry instead...
