Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
In the world of account security, we often focus on end user accounts as the weak vector vulnerable to attackers.
On the contrary, we at Preempt see something that happens just as frequently: failing to limit exposed and vulnerable s…
You’re a good administrator, and you don’t take shortcuts. You adhere to information security best practices whenever possible, and you take that responsibility seriously.
With that said, a hidden setting in a Windows 10 implementation sce…
What password would you use for a bank account soon to be worth $120 million?
Continue ReadingIt has been more than a year since I last shared Preempt Inspector statistics. Last time we shared Preempt Inspector statistics we found some alarming numbers. With the end of 2018 approaching, I would like to share with you key findings fr…
Continue ReadingIn July, media reported that SingHealth, Singapore’s largest health organization, was breached with 1.5 million medical records stolen. The stolen records included those of Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong. Consequently, a special…
Continue ReadingIf your organization handles credit cards, you are no doubt familiar with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. PCI DSS is a set of requirements and procedures that have been established in order to streng…
Continue ReadingDealing with account lockouts is one of the unhappy facts of life for many IT teams. And while resolving lockouts isn’t particularly difficult, it is the sheer volume of incidents that often weighs down IT teams. In fact a recent surv…
Continue ReadingHuman nature motivates us to enhance productivity, make things easy, find workarounds and to crave information that is being kept from us. How do these motivations change the way people work? Do their actions put their company at risk? Do I…
Continue ReadingThis past March we announced Preempt Inspector, a free app for password strength assessment. The App provided administrators with a better understanding of their AD configuration, especially difficult to estimate parameters, such as duplica…
Continue ReadingCredential Compromise has been a leading attack vector for the last five years. There are a variety of ways that attackers can do this. It could be by guessing passwords, phishing emails, spyware, or even pulling credentials out of me…
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