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When hackers target your organization with a password spraying attack, hackers are betting that one (or more) of your employees is logging in with a commonly used password. Threat actors adopt this attack method because it can be done slowly enough to avoid account lockouts. This is just one type of password attack that could hit your organization, and cyber …
As recent reviews have shown, upwards of 80% of hacking-related attacks involve compromised credentials. Threat actors can target individuals and companies through many different types of cyber attacks, but where does their information come from in the first place? It’s easy to find lists of usernames and passwords, sometimes for free, but more often for sale online. In fact, according …
The past twelve months have been a strange time of evolving demands on global healthcare services, as well staggering transformations in the digital sphere. In many hospitals, these two topics overlap, as healthcare organizations are increasingly targeted in online attacks. Healthcare workers don’t have time to digest information about cybersecurity and password practices. But each day threat actors bang at …
Keeping Perspective Broadly speaking, a threat is a potential negative action or event that impacts a network or system. In cybersecurity, the term refers to intentional events, like hacking. A threat actor is an individual or group that performs a negative action. In the cybersecurity industry, threat intelligence research can provide some benefits to companies. It can drive organizations to …
Though 2021 signals positivity, including vaccines for COVID-19, some changes in the workforce due to coronavirus are likely to stick around. Many things are possible from the relative comfort of our own homes, from university lectures to financial consultancy. In the next year, even as we return to some form of immunized normalcy, remote work will likely remain popular. However, …
Each month there seems to be more news of data breaches, both large and small. As these events continue to increase in frequency, organizations are learning that they must engage, and rapidly, with new security measures. Companies are now turning their attention from password policies to biometric authentication solutions, without thinking every ramification through. The biometrics industry is expanding rapidly, …
With 80% of hacking-related breaches stemming from compromised credentials, agreement provides OneLogin clients with enhanced security Boulder, CO – Nov 17, 2020 – Enzoic, a leading provider of compromised credential screening solutions, today announced a partnership with OneLogin, a cloud-based identity and access management provider. The collaboration will see Enzoic’s credentials screening service integrated into OneLogin’s SmartFactor Authentication product, ensuring …
After intensive review of over 3,700 nominations, Enzoic was chosen as a winner of the 2020 CyberSecurity Breakthrough award program. They were recognized specifically with the ‘Fraud Prevention Innovation Award’. CyberSecurity Breakthrough is a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market. Enzoic sits alongside winners in other cyber …
Thousands of Canadian citizens are at risk of identity fraud after cybercriminals used stolen credentials to access government services including COVID-19 relief funds. The source of the breach was a credential stuffing attack utilizing logins exposed in a prior breach. This is the latest example in a steady stream of data breaches driven by poor password practices. The Verizon DBIR …
How Hackers Are Actually Using Exposed Passwords to Infiltrate Active Directory Recent reports like the Verizon DBIR have noted that stolen credentials are often the foothold that attackers use to compromise networks and systems. A simple phishing or credential stuffing attack becomes the entry point for a much larger enterprise, like data theft, ransomware, or system hijacking. This is rather …
