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 […]
I received a handful of inquires today in response to Okta’s PassProtect announcement, so instead of copying and pasting a canned reply to my friends and colleagues, I thought I’d make a quick post with some of my thoughts. First of all, congrats to the Okta team for recognizing the value of breach notification and […]
I am frequently asked about how VeriClouds Identity Threat Protection is any different than the free service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). As the world’s obsession with whether they have been pwned or not became more obsessive and more compulsive, my team at VeriClouds was busy building the next generation credential monitoring and verification platform. […]
Google along with researchers from University of California recently published a research paper titled “Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials” in an effort to better understand the risks of stolen credentials posed to billions of Internet users. The research is based on a dataset of 1.9 billion of stolen credentials […]
Each week we hear new reports of mega data breaches, and more often than not, compromised passwords are involved.1 By at least one report, the number of compromised records skyrocketed past 6 billion in the first half of 20172, a 6x increase from 2016. With the scope and frequency of data breaches increasingly and steadily […]
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 […]
HIBP (haveibeenpwned.com) is a well-known website which allows people to check if any of their online accounts have been compromised in previous data breaches. You provide an email address and it will tell you in which data breaches this email address has been found (Figure 1). Nice and easy, right? There are two major issues […]
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 […]
In late March of this year, Apple and its customers were hit with a startling demand: pay a ransom to a group calling itself The Turkish Crime family, or face having millions of iPhones, iPads and Macs remotely erased. It all turned out to be a bit of a hoax because The Turkish Crime Family […]
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