by Tricerion | May 9, 2022 | Passwords, Phishing, SafeLogin™
In recent years, companies have increasingly put pressure on their employees to maintain password hygiene, using strong, unique passwords for every account and not falling victim to phishing attacks. Proofpoint’s 2022 ‘State of the Phish’ report revealed that 42% of...
by Tricerion | Feb 14, 2022 | Passwords, SafeLogin™, Vulnerabilities
An analysis of NCSC data on over 100,000 breached passwords has found that people continue to use easy to guess passwords such as QWERTY, password and 123456. People tend to do this to cope with password fatigue, reusing the same simple and predictable password across...
by Tricerion | Jan 10, 2022 | Passwords, SafeLogin™, Vulnerabilities
“Stop blaming people for choosing bad passwords and instead put the onus on websites and services to encourage and enforce better cyber hygiene” This is a good article highlighting the fact that year on year passwords like “123456”, “qwerty” and “password” continue to...
by Tricerion | Nov 30, 2021 | Passwords, Vulnerabilities
Administrators of WordPress sites using GoDaddy’s WordPress managed hosted service are being warned to change their passwords and watch for phishing attacks after the provider admitted it was hacked last week. The way the attacker got in: A compromised password. It...
by Tricerion | Nov 11, 2021 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, SafeLogin™
Robinhood is the latest stock trading platform to fall victim to cybercriminals. Hackers stole 5 million people’s email addresses and 2 million people’s full names. For around 310 people, the hack may have been more serious — the attacker accessed...
by Tricerion | Oct 1, 2021 | Passwords, SafeLogin™
According to a recent PC Mag survey of 1,041 adults age 18 or older in the US, 70% of the respondents admitted they use the same password for more than one thing—sometimes (25%), most of the time (24%), or all of the time (21%). That means that when someone gets your...
