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GDPR GDPR and credential stuffing attacks: yes, they are reportable
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Credential stuffing and password spraying attacks are reportable data breaches in compliance with GDPR. Any organisation based in the EU …
Information security My voice is my ultimate password – how biometrics can keep hackers at bay
Piergiorgio Vittori, Global Development Director at Spitch, predicts that we will see ‘voice’ as a mode of authentication increase rapidly in …
News Unprotected Tech Data server leaked PII and financial data of customers
Security researchers recently discovered an unprotected server owned by Fortune 500 company Tech Data Corporation that contained vast amounts of …
News Passwords of G Suite enterprise users were stored in plain text since 2005
Google recently announced that an error in functionality in G Suite that allowed domain administrators to set and recover passwords …
Information security Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn: Why biometrics cannot be considered a true replacement for...
Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn, explores the practical reasons as to why biometrics cannot be considered a true replacement for …
Information security Password security: how does your organisation compare to others?
By Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn, says that businesses are struggling to quantify their own level of password risk, even …
Threats Upto 600m user passwords were stored on Facebook servers in plain text
Passwords of between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users were stored in plain text on internal Facebook servers for …
Passwords Why security at work goes far beyond passwords
With more companies suffering serious data breaches in the past few months, and more people than ever before having their …
News Dunkin’ Donuts suffers second credential-stuffing attack in three months
Dunkin' Donuts announced earlier today that unknown hackers carried out credential-stuffing attacks on its website in January and gained access …
Threats Hackers using credential-stuffing attacks to hijack Deliveroo accounts
Cyber criminals are routinely carrying out credential-stuffing attacks to gain access to accounts of Deliveroo users and placing orders on …
News Collection #1 Data Breach: advice on passwords
3/4 billion email addresses have been affected by the Collection #1 Data Breach. The email addresses together with passwords were …
Podcast Is password security really that important?
Did you know that the most popular password at the end of 2018 was "123456", followed by “password” in second …
