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Results of a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey:– 42% of Brits expect to lose money to online fraud.– 23.2 million victim accounts worldwide used 123456 as password.– only 15% say they know a great deal about how to protect themselves from harmful activity.– the most regular concern is money being stolen – with 42% […]
Criminals have managed to hijack 1.1 million accounts at 17 companies by means of reused passwords, says New York Attorney General Letitia James. According to James, the accounts could be taken over through credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing uses previously leaked email addresses and passwords to gain automated access to accounts. Attackers check whether they […]
An estimated 45 million Americans use encrypted password managers. Another 128 million non-users are open to trying them, with concerns about security and value as the main obstacles. Nearly one-third of Americans had their identity or online credentials stolen in the past year, with another 13 percent unsure whether they’d been hacked. Among those who […]
Biometric authentication techniques have gained momentum over the past few years due to the inherent vulnerability of PINs, passwords, and other similar verification methods. With that said, researchers have shared how a simple fingerprint hacking technique can render biometric authentication useless as a verification method for around 5$. Steps:1. Grab a photograph of someone’s fingerprint […]
The government has introduced new legislation to protect smart devices in people’s homes from being hacked.Recent research from consumer watchdog Which? suggested homes filled with smart devices could be exposed to more than 12,000 attacks in a single week.Default passwords for internet-connected devices will be banned, and firms which do not comply will face fines […]
Internet of Things devices offered in the European Union will no longer be allowed to use standard passwords from mid-2024. Instead, users must set a strong password before first use, the European Commission has determined. It must also become easier to update IoT devices, they must be tested for vulnerabilities and stored personal and financial […]
Microsoft revealed new malware capable of transmitting sensitive information from a compromised AD FS server as well as receive and execute additional malicious payloads retrieved from a remote attacker-controlled server. This malware can also monitor all incoming HTTP GET and POST requests sent to the server from the intranet (or internet) and intercept HTTP requests […]
Microsoft announced last week that users can now log in to their accounts without a password, partly because passwords are vulnerable, but it is precisely Microsoft that has broken passwords, says Kyle Rankin, chief security officer (cso) of computer and smartphone manufacturer Purism. Rankin argues that Microsoft’s poor password policies for Active Directory caused users […]
The Zero Trust approach means nothing inside or outside the company perimeter should be trusted. As a result, every user has to authenticate themselves and their identity with every login every time before they are granted access to company resources, applications and data. Components are: Multifactor authentication,IAM (identity and access management), Orchestration, AnalyticsEncryption, Scoring, File […]
Microsoft is dropping passwords to gain access to an account by leveraging a combination of factors such as your phone (something you have) and biometrics (something you are) for identification.