SpyCloud researchers recovered more than 4.6 billion pieces of personally identifiable information and nearly 1.5 billion stolen account credentials from 854 breach sources in 2020, the company announced in its 2021 Credential Exposure Report. Credential exposure trends The number of breach sources increased 33% over 2019, with an average 2020 breach size of 5,455,813 records. […]
One vulnerability that we frequently look for when testing thick client applications is plain text passwords that are exposed in memory. Microsoft provides the SecureString to help protect passwords in memory, but what it does not provide is a perfect solution to actually using the SecureString when sending web requests. And as you’ll see below, […]
New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state’s strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and […]