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In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the Colonial Pipeline and triggered fuel shortages across the U.S. East Coast. The attackers used a legacy VPN account with no multi-factor authentication — a textbook example of what happens when an organization trusts its perimeter instead of verifying every access
In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the Colonial Pipeline and triggered fuel shortages across the eastern United States. The attackers used a legacy VPN account that had no multi-factor authentication. One credential. No additional verification. That's all it took to paralyze critical infrastructure. If you&
In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom after a single compromised VPN credential gave attackers the keys to the kingdom. One password. No multi-factor authentication. No segmentation between IT and operational technology networks. The attackers from the DarkSide group walked through a flat network like it
The Colonial Pipeline Made "Never Trust, Always Verify" a Boardroom Priority In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom — and the real costs ran far deeper. The attack exploited a legacy
In July 2020, Twitter disclosed that attackers had compromised 130 high-profile accounts — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple — by socially engineering their way past internal employees. The attackers didn't breach a firewall. They didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They simply convinced insiders to hand over
The SolarWinds Breach Just Proved Your Perimeter Is Dead As I write this in December 2020, we're watching one of the most devastating supply chain attacks in history unfold. The SolarWinds breach — disclosed just days ago — compromised U.S. government agencies and major corporations by exploiting trusted software
When Twitter disclosed in July 2020 that attackers had hijacked 130 high-profile accounts — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple — the root cause wasn't some exotic zero-day exploit. It was social engineering. Attackers manipulated employees, gained access to internal tools, and moved laterally through systems that trusted them
The Framework 87% of Organizations Claim to Follow — But Most Get Wrong When the Change Healthcare breach exposed the records of over 100 million people in 2024, investigators found something familiar: the organization had a cybersecurity program on paper. What it lacked was disciplined execution against a proven structure. That
The Breach That Proved Perimeters Don't Work In 2020, the SolarWinds breach gave roughly 18,000 organizations a brutal lesson: once a threat actor gets past your perimeter, they can move laterally for months without detection. Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and critical infrastructure providers all had firewalls.
The Breach That Proved Perimeter Security Was Dead In early 2024, a threat actor gained access to Microsoft's corporate email system — including accounts belonging to senior leadership and cybersecurity staff. The attacker didn't exploit some exotic zero-day. They used a password spray attack against a legacy
