Published on: 2025-04-20 15:33:08
These days, hackers don't break in — they log in. Using valid credentials, cybercriminals bypass security systems while appearing legitimate to monitoring tools. And the problem is widespread; Google Cloud reports that weak or nonexistent credential protection facilitates 47% of cloud breaches, while IBM X-Force attributes nearly one-third of global cyberattacks to account compromises. So what does this mean for your organization’s defenses? Here’s what you need to know about how to protect y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 11:25:00
Valeriia Mitriakova/Getty Images Looking for advice on how to protect your home and office from cyberattacks? A good place to start is with the people who do this work every day on behalf of the US government. The folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a simple Cybersecurity Basics page that boils down the technical information in its four-volume Digital Identity Guidelines to a set of clear guidelines for small business owners and managers. The most re
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Cloudflare announced that its R2 object storage and dependent services experienced an outage lasting 1 hour and 7 minutes, causing 100% write and 35% read failures globally. Cloudflare R2 is a scalable, S3-compatible object storage service with free data retrieval, multi-region replication, and tight Cloudflare integration. The incident, which lasted between 21:38 UTC and 22:45 UTC, was reportedly caused by a credential rotation that caused the R2 Gateway (API frontend) to lose authentication
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Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . One of the best things you can do for your online security is to make sure you have a robust, unique password on every single one of your accounts. But not many of us have the ability to memorize the login details for so many different services if the credentials are as strong as they
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 08:40:08
Cisco warned customers today of a vulnerability in Webex for BroadWorks that could let unauthenticated attackers access credentials remotely. Webex for BroadWorks integrates Cisco Webex's video conferencing and collaboration features with the BroadWorks unified communications platform. While the company has yet to assign a CVE ID to track this security issue, Cisco says in a Tuesday security advisory that it already pushed a configuration change to address the flaw and advised customers to res
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A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor authentication. According to a report by SecurityScorecard, the attackers are leveraging credentials stolen by infostealer malware to target the accounts at a large scale. The attacks rely on non-interactive sign-ins using Basic Authentication (Basic Auth) to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prote
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