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Software Exploits Overrated – It’s the Humans You Need to be Watching
Weak passwords and phishing offer far easier mechanisms for breaking into most organizations than exploiting software vulnerabilities. A study by US cybersecurity firm Praetorian based on 100 penetration tests and 450 real-world attacks discovered that stolen credentials offer the best way into enterprise networks. Ninety-seven per cent of organizations have more than one root cause […]
‘Use 1 capital’ password prompts make them too predictable – study
A new study has found that password structure is a key flaw in making login IDs hard to guess. Security firm Praetorian analyzed 34 million stolen passwords from the LinkedIn, eHarmony and Rockyou breaches and found that 50 per cent of all passwords followed 13 basic structures. This lack of entropy makes it possible to […]