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Root Admin User: When Do Common Usernames Pose a Threat?

Data Breach Today

Honeypot Hits Reinforce Need for Strong Passwords and Multifactor Authentication Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. Second place went to China (17%).

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5 Best Bot Protection Solutions and Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

See the Top Web Application Firewalls Honeypots Honeypots are fake resources that are designed to attract bots and gather information about their behavior. See the Top Deception Tools Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) 2FA is a proven security measure that can help protect against a wide range of cyber threats, including bot attacks.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Within this framework are requirements to minimize lateral movement and impact in breach scenarios as well as data collection and response requirements. Users can only access this vault if they have the right master password and/or if they are able to pass through multi-factor authentication.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

You know, I did a job once where we had a customer and involved compromises at different servers right in and, you know, we literally had a whole team just to do data collection. And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc.

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