PIRATESSHIELD

123456. qwerty. password. We’ve all done it. Despite constantly being told to mix up our passwords and include everything from capital letters to hieroglyphics (well, not quite) we’re still using predictable patterns that hold the key to our entire online lives.  A research study carried out by Keeper Security has revealed the most common passwords used in 2017. The data, collected from 10 million passwords included in data breaches that happened in 2016, highlighted some interesting facts: Nearly 17% of users are using the password ‘123456’ to safeguard their accounts.  The top 25 passwords of 2016 make up for over 50% of the 10m passwords that were analyzed. 4 of the top 10 passwords are six characters or shorter. These statistics are worrying, and show that the list of most-frequently used passwords is not changing. A six character password can be unscrambled in seconds. The majority of users are not taking the time or effort to protect themselves and secure their passwords so it is

Watering Hole Attack A watering hole attack is a security exploit in which the attacker seeks to compromise a specific group of end users by infecting websites that members of the group are known to visit. The goal is to infect a targeted user's computer and gain access to the network at the target's place of employmen t. A watering hole attack is a security exploit in which the attacker seeks to compromise a specific group of end users by infecting websites that members of the group are known to visit. The goal is to infect a targeted user's computer and gain access to the network at the target's place of employment. What Happened ?? Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers from Kaspersky Labs, who have attributed these