The Irish data regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros after an investigation found the company insecurely stored passwords of millions of European Facebook and Instagram users. A Meta spokesperson said the company identified the problem in 2019 and took "immediate action."
Data warehousing platform Snowflake rolled out default MFA - as well as a 14-character password minimum - to shore up security in the wake of a series of cyberattacks in June that hit high-profile customers including Santander Bank, Advance Auto Parts, LA Unified School District and Neiman Marcus.
Authentication requiring stored credentials is not only vulnerable to phishing and other compromises, but using these credentials can also be cumbersome for busy clinicians, said Tina Srivastava, co-founder of Badge, a provider of deviceless, tokenless authentication technology.
The Department of Health and Human Services is facing some of the same cloud security problems as the healthcare organizations it regulates: weaknesses in a dozen different cloud security controls and inventories of cloud systems, according to an inspector general's audit report.
Passwords are inherently easy for adversaries to subvert. Due to password fatigue, users often choose weak passwords. They also often reuse or only slightly modify old passwords for different accounts.
As a result, Over 80% of breaches involving web applications is attributed to use of stolen credentials, while 50%...
Security experts told ISMG they were concerned Microsoft could suffer future cyberattacks and threats to its customers after a Russian state hacking group managed to evade detection for several weeks while targeting accounts associated with the company’s top executives.
Russian state hackers obtained access to the inboxes of senior Microsoft executives for at least six weeks, the computing giant disclosed late Friday afternoon. "There is no evidence that the threat actor had any access to customer environments, production systems, source code, or AI systems."
The appearance of Naz.api - a massive collection of online credentials harvested by information-stealing malware that contains 71 million unique email addresses - illustrates the scale at which such data is being collected, shared and sold, security experts warn.
As businesses of all sizes embrace digital transformation, remote work, and mobile devices, they become increasingly susceptible to cybersecurity threats. Reports of ransomware attacks and data breaches grow with each passing week.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face the same cyberthreats as larger...
In the wake of an apparently weak password being harvested by information-stealing malware and used to disrupt telecommunications giant Orange Spain's internet traffic, an expert is warning all organizations to beware of copycat attacks - and to lock down their internet registry accounts.
Mobile password managers are different from computer-based password managers due to different constraints found in the mobile operating system, said Ankit Gangwal, assistant professor at the International Institute of Information Technology. He shed light on the risks introduced by AutoSpill.
All has not been quiet on the malicious cybersecurity front this year, thanks to constant cybercrime innovation, cyberattacks and cyberespionage, and malicious or inadvertent data breaches. Here are 12 notable incidents and trends of 2023 and their implications for the bigger cybersecurity picture.
Microsoft said Iranian state hackers are using a newly developed backdoor to target organizations in the American defense industrial base. The Iranian state threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Peach Sandstorm employed a custom backdoor named FalseFont.
Okta finalized an agreement to acquire Spera Security, saying the purchase will expand its ability to track risky accounts and access misconfigurations. Spera, a Tel Aviv startup, touts itself as a tool for giving security teams "real-time visibility into their entire identity surface."
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