Phil Muncaster The company formerly known as Yahoo has agreed to pay a $35m penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission after failing to notify the market promptly about a breach…
Tag: usernames
Thousands of FTSE 100 Corporate Log-Ins Found on Dark Web
Phil Muncaster Over three-quarters (77%) of FTSE 100 companies are at risk of suffering a damaging cyber-attack because corporate log-ins including plain text passwords are available on the dark web,…
Equifax had 'admin' as login and password in Argentina
The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations. Cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs said that an online employee tool…
Poor Passwords, Cloud and Network Complexity Plague Orgs
By Tara Seals An array of organizations still vulnerable to brute force attacks as attackers target default or easily-guessed usernames and passwords to breach enterprise defenses. That’s according to Ixia’s…