The new bill will require unique passwords for IoT devices and will prevent passwords from being reset to factory defaults. British lawmakers intend to take tough measures to combat preset passwords in IoT devices. New bill, contributed to the UK Parliament, will ban universal passwords by default and is intended...
The specialist managed to hack 73% of the 5 thousand studied wireless networks. CyberArk employee Ido Hoorvitch conducted an interesting experiment to find out how strong passwords are for Wi-Fi networks in his hometown of Tel Aviv. Using equipment to intercept Wi-Fi packets, Horwich collected a sample of 5,000 hashes...
Most often, cracked passwords contain the names of superheroes Internet passwords referring to the names of popular superheroes are very popular among users. This is what the experts at Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, came to believe after analyzing the haveibeenpwned.com hacked accounts database. This was reported in...
Researchers have found 653 passwords and logins for NEW Cooperative employees in previous leaks. The attack on NEW Cooperative was made possible by the company’s employees using weak passwords. This assumption was made by experts from the company FYEO, which provides identity management services, which discovered hundreds of compromised credentials...
Users will be able to remove passwords from their accounts and choose an alternative authentication method. Microsoft announced its intention to allow users to remove passwords and sign in to Microsoft accounts without them. The change will begin to take effect in the next few weeks. According to the company,...
CISA recommends using multi-factor authentication to protect any account. In June of this year, the US Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched a new project called Bad Practices, which is a catalog of discouraged cybersecurity practices, methods and configurations. At first, the list included only two entries, but in...
