Researchers at Bitdefender warn that Netflix-themed phishing attacks can have far-reaching consequences if users follow poor security practices. While Netflix is generally associated with ...
World Password Day is no longer just a nudge to pick stronger passwords, it’s a moment to rethink identity. Attackers rarely “hack” systems today; they log in as you. Combine expert ...
Prior to my further research into AI and quantum for my latest book, How AI and Quantum Impact Cyber Threats and Defenses, I had pretty solid password policy recommendations:
A phishing campaign is impersonating LastPass and Bitwarden with phony breach notifications, BleepingComputer reports.
Attackers are using a newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed “Salty 2FA” to target a wide range of industries across North America and Europe, according to ...
Commodity phishing kits are increasingly serving dynamically generated phishing pages, according to researchers at ESET.
Just because you’re using a passkey doesn’t mean your password is gone.
This recent article on how a hacker used genealogy websites to help better guess victims' password reset answers made it a great time to share a suggestion: Don’t answer password reset ...
Passwords are part of every organization’s security risk profile. Just one weak password with access to an organization’s critical systems can cause a breach, take down a network or ...
Ok, I'll admit it, I was swept up in the moment last week and wrote a short blog post that more or less summarized the tsunami of news about that huge data breach initially reported by ...
In a Friday regulatory filing, Microsoft has reported that its corporate email accounts were compromised by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard, also ...
Our login credentials of a username and password are sometimes all that stands between our personal identifiable information and cybercriminals. Count Hackula could be waiting in the ...
Cybercriminals are not holding back on LastPass users as a new phishing campaign has recently launched with the intent to steal your data.
Cybercriminals can't ascertain your phone password just from a Wi-Fi signal, but they can come close according to a method described in a recent research paper. Researchers have ...
I frequently write about authentication, including PKI, multi-factor authentication (MFA), password managers, FIDO, Open Authentication, and biometrics. I have written dozens of articles ...
As the retirement countdown for the current version of PCI is now less than six months, a new standard for password length, complexity, and change frequency may create some risk.
What really makes a “strong” password? And why are you and your end-users continually tortured by them? How do hackers crack your passwords with ease? And what can/should you do to ...
It's World Password Day! This holiday is to ensure everyone always practices good password hygiene. This year, we wanted to share the best password resources with you to share with your ...
Yeah, quantum computers are likely to be able to crack passwords from every angle.
Is your organization’s password complexity strong enough?
