Cybersecurity is becoming a pressing issue for IT professionals in all fields. There are headlines every week about data breaches of all sizes and the attacks themselves come from many angles. This article details the password attack methods hackers frequently used against enterprises and provides solutions as to how your business can prevent damage or breaches. 1. Dictionary Attacks A …
The Skinny on Password Attacks
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 …
8 Ways to Mitigate Credential Stuffing Attacks
We all know that data breaches have leaked billions of user credentials (usernames and passwords) on the public internet and dark web. The Global Password Security Report shows an alarming 50% of people reuse the same passwords across their personal and work accounts. If a cybercriminal obtains legitimate credentials for a personal account, they often can also get into that person’s work account because …
Enzoic Part of Enterprise Security Magazine’s Top 10 Identity and Access Management Solution Providers for 2019
Enzoic is proud to be part of Enterprise Security Magazine’s Top 10 Identity and Access Management Solution Providers for 2019. Enzoic was selected to be part of this exclusive list because of the uniqueness of the technology along with the low-friction way the product helps prevent account takeover and fraud. In the past decade, over 10 billion records have been …
Credential Stuffing Attacks vs. Brute Force Attacks
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a non-profit that is dedicated to web application security, classifies credential stuffing as a subset of brute force attacks. However, in practice, the two types of cyber-attacks use very different methods to accomplish an account takeover and fraud. To explore how credential stuffing attacks and brute force attacks differ, we need to understand …