Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos researchers, which outlines how, over the past year, and in particular as a result of the migration from work at the office to work from home during the pandemic, cyber-attackers are using collaboration platforms like Slack and Discord
Stolen user credentials account for over half of all data breaches in 2015
By Kelly Frye Barnett on
Posted in Data Breach
Verizon recently released its yearly Data Breach Investigations Report and as always, the report is a very informative read. The report gathered information from more than 64,000 security incidents worldwide in 2015, 2,260 of which were actual data breaches.
One of the report’s most alarming statistics reveals that legitimate user credentials were used in most…