Collaborate Disseminate
On Friday, an unknown number of customers of Microsoft’s webmail services (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN Mail) received a notice from the company telling them that attackers had access to their email account for three months. “We have identifie… Continue reading Hackers used credentials of a Microsoft Support worker to access users’ webmail
Media organizations, gaming companies, and the entertainment industry are among the biggest targets of credential stuffing attacks, in which malicious actors tap automated tools to use stolen login information to attempt to gain access to user accounts… Continue reading Who are the biggest targets of credential stuffing attacks?
X-Force researchers observed attackers targeting multinational corporations in various sectors using malicious scripts to automate attacks on misconfigured servers.
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When doing a payment integration what would be the reasons the payment gateway would require your bank credentials instead of redirecting the client to his or her bank website?
The context of my question can be found on the … Continue reading Online payment integration requires handling my bank credentials. Why?
With SSO, employees can use one set of credentials to access all their apps instead of remembering, looking up and frequently resetting multiple passwords.
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Facebook just can’t get a break. After a long string of accusations directed at the social platform for security and privacy concerns, Facebook has now been caught using an appalling security practice – demanding new subscribers hand over t… Continue reading Facebook strikes again – now asks new subscribers for passwords to their email accounts
For long I have wondered how does it work that people trust different websites with their credentials, not worrying about the credibility of the website or how they actually handle the sensitive data. From my understanding th… Continue reading Why do users trust different websites with their sensitive data, having the same passwords in other services? [on hold]
I am working on an IOT device that sends data to the server after authenticating itself to the server. Is there a way to safely store my device’s credentials for logging onto the main server and sending data to it.
The IOT d… Continue reading Device security in IOT
Hackers directed credential abuse attempts at retail sites more than 10 billion times from May to December last year, making retail the most targeted segment studied, according to the Akamai 2019 State of the Internet / Security: Retail Attacks and API… Continue reading Fighting credential stuffing attacks is an uphill battle
Most IT decision makers are not prioritizing Privileged Access Management (PAM) practices and solutions, despite knowing privileged credential abuse is involved in almost three out of every four breaches, according to Centrify. The survey of 1,000 IT d… Continue reading Privileged credential abuse is involved in 74% of data breaches