First of all, the term means that a particular password is available in a data breach on the dark web–and there are billions of breached passwords out there. KnowBe4 just released a free ...
More than 70 percent of computer users will choose password-less multi-factor authentication (MFA) over traditional usernames and passwords, according to new behavior research. The ...
Troy Hunt, the founder of Haveibeenpwned came out with some brand new numbers that show there's bad news and there's more bad news. A few months ago he launched V2 of his Pwned Passwords ...
The Register in the UK reported: "An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report. "Credential ...
It's suddenly all over the news. In hindsight, it was a matter of "not if, but when". Sophos just warned against a new hybrid worm that combines the ETERNALBLUE exploit and cryptomining. ...
For the second year in a row, "123456" remained the top password among the millions of cleartext passwords exposed online thanks to data breach incidents at various providers. While ...
IT security vendor Anomali, released a new report showing the volume of stolen credentials of FTSE 100 employees tripled In 2017, and a whopping 77% of the FTSE 100 were exposed with an ...
The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index is an average of share prices in the 100 largest, most actively traded companies on the London Stock Exchange. IT security vendor ...
SecurityWeek reported about an interesting F-Secure study showing thirty percent of CEOs from the world's largest organizations have had their company email address and password stolen ...
According to the Last Pass Password Exposé report, an employee manages of about 200 passwords. Other industry reports often estimate the number of credentials used and put the figure ...
So here’s a new one: a spoofed Amazon email claiming that Amazon has detected an unauthorized attempt to reset the password on the recipient’s account. A six digit code is provided along ...
Wherever there’s a lot of money to be made cyber thieves are not far behind. Think sharks surrounding a bait ball. Enigma is a financial data marketplace founded by a team from MIT which ...
After the NIST passwords bombshell, we surveyed 2,600 IT professionals to find out how they were managing passwords. The answers show that IT Pros are generally receptive to the proposed ...
OK, this is a headscratcher. This is why we were surprised. I found it in a Wall Street Journal article today (paywall). Bill Burr, the author of “NIST Special Publication 800-63. ...
How weak are your user’s passwords? Are they... P@ssw0rd? Verizon's recent Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. ...
The background is based on current state-of-the-art password cracking technology. In short, hackers penetrate the network, get access to a domain controller and pull the file with all ...
You probably remember the 2012 LinkedIn data breach. It was a big deal because something like 6.5 million user account passwords were posted online, but LinkedIn never confirmed the final ...
"I feel like a complete idiot. I just got taken by a LinkedIn spam that may have just stolen my banking password." These words dropped in my inbox, written a while ago by Dan Tynan, ...
Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.
