Understanding a few basics about how password crackers think and behave could help you keep your users safer.

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In an effort to protect their organizations, security professionals can overdo it. The result often works against them.

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Companies that claim they’ll never pay up in a ransomware attack are more likely to get caught flat-footed.

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Eradicating ‘privileged intruders’ from the network in the aftermath of an attack poses major challenges, experts say.

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Trinity Cyber takes a new spin on some traditional network-security techniques, but can its approach catch on widely?

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The vulnerability is being exploited in limited attacks against Adobe Reader users on Windows.

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Application-specific and Web application attacks made up 67% of all attacks in 2020 as criminal strategies shifted in the pandemic.

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Microsoft releases security patches for 55 vulnerabilities in its monthly roundup, which includes a critical, wormable flaw in the HTTP protocol stack.

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Deeply rooted cybersecurity misconceptions are poisoning our ability to understand and defend against attacks.

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