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The City of Prescott, Arizona overlooks an authentically American western landscape. This mountainous countryside gives birth to a booming metropolitan city that attracts people from around the world to its many museums, art galleries, and antique shops in addition to its wonderful outdoor recreational activities. Just like in the Wild West, where sheriffs fought outlaws for control, the City of …
How long do you think it would take for someone to guess your password? Let’s say they knew you well. You’d start with combinations of your pet names and birth date, or where you work and your town. They might spend hours trying combinations, but the likelihood is, they wouldn’t independently be able to guess it. But as research has …
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is ubiquitous across the corporate landscape; you probably use it to authorize access at almost every level. Due to its popularity and importance, AD is a perfect target for cyber attacks. Hackers frequently use password spraying and credential stuffing as attack methods, especially against AD. With many traditional password ‘best practices’ being outdated, are you prepared …
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 …
