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Tips for a Smarter Approach to Password Policy

10

Feb

2020

According to a 2019 survey by Google, a staggering 65% of participants report using the same password across multiple accounts. And all too often, there is an overlap between personal and work-related account passwords. With the rise of credential stuffing, adversaries can take a set of username/password combinations obtained by attacking one target and use […]

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The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

06

Jan

2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and frequently do siphon every single […]

Category Cyber-crime Identity theft Written by Krebsonsecurity 0 Comments

Hack Breaks PDF Encryption, Opens Content to Attackers

02

Oct

2019

Researchers in Germany have invented a new hack that can allow someone to break the encryption of PDF files and access their content — or even forge signed PDF files under certain circumstances. A team from Ruhr University Bochum, FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and Hackmanit GmbH developed the attack, called PDFex, that can […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

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