Reddit hack shows that the industry standard two-factor authentication approach in certain cases might not offer as much protection of vulnerable data as has long been thought.
Even with 64% of cloud security incidents stemming from unauthorized access, businesses are still underestimating access security with only 7% of security leaders citing account takeovers as top risk.
Owner of a botnet has leaked the access credentials for more than 515,000 servers and claimed they were changing business models to make use of cloud service providers instead.
From Uber to MailChimp, even the most technologically advanced and capable companies seem to struggle with keeping sensitive data safe and secure. And much of it comes down to one major data security pitfall – authorization oversight.
Millennials, a tech-savvy bunch often on the go, tend to kick caution to the curb when it comes to protecting personal information as growing up with technology often creates a false sense of security.
With six million Instagram accounts hacked, are passwords now a liability and is it time to turn on that Instagram two-factor authentication?
Latest Instagram password leak has exposed 10,000 plaintext credentials in the SocialCaptain app, allowing anyone to access any app profile by entering a unique user ID into a public URL.
Compromised passwords happens to everyone. Any company, regardless of size should be using MFA as part of their security strategy as it can be one of the easiest ways to secure accounts.
California is now leading the charge to beef up the cyber security features of connected devices by banning weak passwords, forcing device manufacturers to supply a unique password or force a password change on startup.
A statement of claim attached to mandatory court filings reveals that the ACMA will frame the Optus data breach as a case of negligence, asserting that the company failed to address an access control coding error that it had known about for some years.