ABSTRACT: Educational software deployment in Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges due to intermittent internet connectivity and limited digital payment infrastructure. This necessitates ...

NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is an authentication protocol by Microsoft for Windows accounts and services. Due to security weaknesses, it has been largely replaced by Kerberos, but it’s still available for ...

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension’s ransomware ...

Popular streaming platform Plex on Monday issued an urgent warning that user information has been compromised in a data breach. “An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data ...

Enterprise passwords are becoming easier to steal and increasingly difficult to stop being abused once they leak. According to the Picus Security’s latest annual Blue Report, based on more than 160 ...

A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password 1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately ...

Hackers used Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) software SharePoint's flaws to break into the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration. However, no sensitive or classified information is known to have been ...

Kerberoasting is a common attack targeting Microsoft Active Directory, enabling attackers to compromise service accounts with low risk of detection. Because it manipulates legitimate accounts, it can ...

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino unveils PearPass, a fully local, open-source password manager, after a record 16 billion-password data breach. The leaked datasets include credentials from major platforms, ...

Two local information-disclosure vulnerabilities have been identified in popular Linux crash-reporting tools, allowing attackers to access sensitive system data. The vulnerabilities, uncovered by the ...

As cyber threats evolve, so do the techniques that hackers use to infiltrate networks. One of the most insidious tactics is the pass-the-hash (PtH) attack, a form of credential theft that allows ...

Cracking the Codes: A new Hive Systems Password Table update highlights a growing concern: modern GPUs can crack hashed passwords faster than ever. As hardware improves, short or simple credentials ...