“123456” Remains Most Common Password Found in Data Dumps in 2017

For the second year in a row, “123456” remained the top password among the millions of cleartext passwords exposed online thanks to data breach incidents at various providers. While having “123456” as your password is quite bad, the other terms found on a
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Tracking Which Employees Could be the Root Cause of a Cyber Attack

Kon Leong at Harvard Business Review wrote an excellent article about the problem of employees exposing your organization to cyber threats through human error. Here is an extract: Today, cybersecurity has expanded far beyond its traditional domain of external threats, typified by
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New Phishing Report: 90% of IT Execs Worry Most About Email Threats

Our colleagues at Phishme released the results of their US Phishing Response Trends Report, which looked at the phishing response strategies of two hundred senior IT security decision-makers across a variety of large industries in the United States. The report shows that
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New Survey: IT Security Spending is Up, Security is Not, and Ransomware’s the Biggest Worry

Executive Summary The second annual Cyren-Osterman Research U.S. security survey shows a significant disconnect between rising IT security spending and a low level of confidence in current protection, among many topics covered in the 24-page report, “IT Security at SMBs:
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