CSO Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Credential stuffing is the automated use of collected usernames and passwords to gain fraudulent access to user accounts. Billions of login credentials have landed in the hands of hackers over the past several years as a result of data breaches. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Credential stuffing is a cyberattack in which exposed usernames and passwords are used to gain fraudulent access to user accounts through large-scale, automated login requests. Attackers are asking: What does it look like to make a legitimate request? How can we emulate that?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password expiration is no longer needed but many organizations are still doing it, and how fake executive profiles are becoming a huge problem for […].

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2022

million past and present customers of its investment services, as names, brokerage portfolio values and account numbers were compromised in a data breach. In an SEC filing made on Monday, Cash App parent company Block, Inc., said that it was working to contact roughly 8.2

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” The security breach was discovered by GitHub earlier this month when the company noticed suspicious access to Okta’s code repositories. “Upon investigation, we have concluded that such access was used to copy Okta code repositories,” writes David Bradbury, the Okta Chief Security Officer (CSO) in the mail.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The announcement came as the ride-hailing giant continues to investigate a network data breach that occurred on Thursday, September 15. In a security update published on Monday, September 19 , Uber wrote, “An Uber EXT contractor had their account compromised by an attacker.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Password manager vendor Dashlane has announced updates to its suite of enterprise offerings. These include a new Dark Web Insights tool that provides a breakdown of compromised passwords, a standalone authenticator app for enabling account multi-factor authentication (MFA), and a low-cost starter plan for small businesses.

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