Parisian authorities recently arrested five men for hacking gas station pumps and stealing 120,000 liters of petrol and diesel. This was possible because the stations did not change the default PIN code of their gas pumps.
Based on the incidents we saw in 2016 and glimpse of the future we made in our cybersecurity predictions for the coming year, here are the essential cybersecurity resolutions enterprises need to make in 2017.
Yahoo disclosed yet another breach that exposed 1 billion user accounts in August 2013. This comes shortly after it announced a smaller but significant hack last September.
1.5 million active users of cloud-based backup firm, Carbonite, are forced to reset passwords following the recent discovery of a reused password attack.
Following spate of mega-breaches, unauthorized login attempts in several web services and online platforms rise, including recently-reported reused password attacks on Github and Citrix.
Google’s Project Abacus aims to get rid of traditional password use on Android with the use of a variety of login metrics to create a more secure and convenient way to verify a user's identity.
Long time users of Linkedin users may very well need to change their passwords once more as a cybercriminal puts the email addresses and passwords of 117 million users up for sale.
Password managers have made the tedious task of managing multiple accounts easier with the use of a single repository of various login credentials locked behind a master password. But what if this, too, gets hacked?