KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. So, what does the report say about the most common threat actions that are involved in data breaches?

Data breaches 74

Data breaches Phishing Security awareness Ransomware 74

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

Authentication 52

Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

Authentication 52

Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. There's a caveat to this of course because they essentially elongate the use of passwords still. That's a great use case.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52