A study by Google reveals that about 75% of Americans feel frustrated about passwords, so it’s easy to understand why people would adhere to common “guides” about password security. You need to be careful about misinformation and what counts as good password hygiene. In this blog, we discuss nine popular myths and misconceptions about password security, the right approach to password security and the importance of deploying password managers.
Researchers investigating a newly-discovered botnet have admitted that they "accidentally" broke it. In November, security experts at Akamai described a Golang-based botnet that they had discovered, hijacking PCs via SSH and weak credentials in order to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and mine cryptocurrency.
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Due to the increasing number of cyberattacks, particularly zero days, organizations are scrambling to obtain the best security services available. While even the smallest organization might feel that implementing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) will keep its data secure, a targeted attack from a nefarious threat actor could lure an employee into clicking and opening a malicious document.
Operational Technology (OT) security has been thrown into the spotlight in the wake of several recent high-profile supply chain attacks targeting critical infrastructure. Security incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack have re-established the critical significance of Operational Technology Security, especially for the global power and energy sector.
In a previous post, our team shared our Three Best Practices for Building a High-Performance Graph Database. That was written two years ago, when CrowdStrike Threat Graph® was processing billions of events per day and storing a few petabytes of data. Fast forward to today: CrowdStrike Threat Graph now stores over 40 petabytes of data and handles trillions of events per day while routinely serving upward of 70 million requests per second.
