Assessing The Risk of Compromised Credentials to The Enterprise Businesses today face an abundance of organizational risk. These come in the form of creating the business model itself, dealing with third parties, managing vendors and partners, monitoring internal and external fiscal fraud, exercising premise security, and the like. In the 21st century, no greater risk […]
by Stan Bounev and Chris Olive When faced with the problem of data being open to all users on an early, 1960’s mainframe computer, Fernando “Corby” Corbato rather nonchalantly assigned passwords to protect user private data, and the concept of the computer password was born. Fast forward to today, and no one ever would have […]
Account Takeover (ATO) Attacks Simply Don’t Matter Account Takeover (ATO) attacks seemingly just don’t matter. That’s the conclusion a semi-informed outside observer might potentially come to based on how these pernicious attacks are being addressed by the cybersecurity community. That ATO attacks desperately need to be addressed, and addressed in the right way, goes without […]
“Baby born with two heads! Alligators found in Central Park! 773 Million Credentials Leaked! Largest Breach In History! Step right up folks, and get the latest news, exclusively right here!” And so it may as well have been last week. The sensationalized news of the Collection #1 breach touted as “one of the largest breaches […]
High-profile data breaches in recent years have created a new and rapidly emerging high-risk reality that businesses must be made aware of, and which can no longer be ignored. This high-risk reality is the creation and accessibility of huge data lakes containing billions of leaked credentials for sale on the dark web that provide exact […]
December 26th, 2004. A powerful but mostly silent earthquake took place off the coast of northern Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. While beach goers on the eastern coast of India noticed the strange phenomena of the sea receding a few hundred yards, no one put “two and two” together based on this scant evidence. The […]
April 7th – today. That’s the deadline that looms like a dark cloud over Apple and its customers based on the claims of a group calling themselves The Turkish Crime Family. The group claimed publicly a couple of weeks ago they have hacked Apple’s iCloud and have threatened they will erase hundreds of millions of […]
Every year it seems, the breaches are more frequent and so much bigger. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of attacks, over previous years, that exploited leaked credentials. Being just past the year’s end, we at VeriClouds have decided that now is the time to recap the most notable breaches. In this […]
VeriClouds recently polled a field of Cyber Security professionals to get their opinions on the predominate threat trends in 2017. Our experts are CEO’s, CISOs, Engineers, Security Architects and Consultants working in universities, private consulting firms and corporations. Cyber Security 2017 Summary All responses, including those persons wishing to remain anonymous, were considered in writing […]
This post is related to the 12/28/16 Ars Technica article – Did my account actually get hacked? Hard to tell, even after Netflix’s “heads up”. The author of the above article describes his experience receiving an email alert from Netflix warning about a potential compromise of his Netflix credentials. Not to spoil a good read, […]
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