The experts at NIST have created a simple Cybersecurity Basics page[1] that takes technical information down to a set of guidelines for small business owners and managers. For a simpler, more practical collection of guidelines, try the Secure Our World website, https://www.cisa.gov/secure-our-world run by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). It is targeted at an audience of consumers without a technical background, which makes it a good source of information you can share
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According to cyber experts, threat groups are making nearly 1,000 attempts to hack account passwords every single second and they are more determined to succeed with the number of attacks increasing. This analysis comes from Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2022 and are based on research of trillions of alerts and signals collected from the company's worldwide ecosystem of products and services.
The report cautions that cyber-attacks are increasing, with account passwords still very much the
The 2022 Major League Baseball season is set to kick off next week, which means fans everywhere are trying to gauge how their team stacks up to the competition. To prepare for the season Wapack Labs has skipped the analysis of Batting Averages, RBI’s, and On-Base Percentages in favor of measuring each team’s cyber security posture.
Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC provided notice regarding a data privacy incident that occurred on 12 November 2021. The incident involved the theft of data inclu
Online banking and online shopping are useful and convenient, but using them insecurely can put you at risk from hackers. Here are some suggestions to keep your money and cryptocurrency more secure against online threats. In the 21st Century, we are all much more reliant on the internet and online services than ever before. The Internet age has brought benefits, it is easy and convenient to buy from a website compared with having to visit a store and there are also additional risks that need t
Microsoft (MS) announced recently that data collected by its network of honeypot servers, that most brute-force attackers primarily attempt to guess short passwords, with very few attacks targeting credentials that are either long or contain complex characters.
“I analyzed the credentials entered from over >25 million brute force attacks against SSH. This is around 30 days of data in Microsoft’s sensor network,” said a security researcher at Microsoft. 77% of attempts used a password between 1
The US federal authorities will soon begin sharing hashes of compromised passwords found in the course of its cybercrime investigations with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), the data breach notification service. The password hashes will contribute to Pwned Passwords, a service used to help warn users against reusing passwords that have been leaked in data breaches, says Troy Hunt, the Australian developer who created Have I Been Pwned
The stolen and leaked data the FBI comes across in investigations,
