by Mike Foster | Apr 7, 2016 | Account Lockout Policy, Alerts, Best Practices, Cyber Security, Cyber Security Breach, Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, Executive Tips, Hacker Insight, Hackers, IT Best Practices, IT Pro Tips, Password Security, Technology Safety Tips
Last week, you saw an example of a list of passwords that an attacker used to attack a server more than 41,000 times. But the worst part was the server that underwent a short attack… As demonstrated last week, attackers attempt to guess usernames and passwords on...
by Mike Foster | Mar 31, 2016 | Alerts, Cyber Security, Cyber Security Breach, Cybersecurity, Password Security, Preventative IT Security Breach
Password attacks against businesses happen all the time. You may find it interesting to see the list of usernames that attackers guess are on your system, and how many passwords they try for each username. Notice that, for the usernames most likely to exist on...
by Mike Foster | Mar 28, 2016 | Alerts, Cyber Security, Cyber Security Breach, Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, Password Safety, Password Security, Technology Safety Tips, Windows 10
Earlier this year, we discovered that an angry ex-employee at one of our customer’s organization tried to guess the CEO’s password more than 300 times. The day he was fired, he went to work trying to crack the CEO’s password. What if he had been able to break in? It...
by Mike Foster | Mar 24, 2016 | Best Practices, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Executives and IT, Invisible Security Threats, IT Best Practices, IT Discussions, Technology Safety Tips
Executives: How could any responsible IT professional, who is devoted to you and very capable, fail to protect your network? Simple. Executives, please recognize that there are two categories of problems IT professionals need to solve. Problems that are visible, and...
