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The Breach That Started With a Single Password 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 stolen VPN credential — no multi-factor authentication, no zero trust architecture, just one reused password. That's
In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $6.9 billion to cybercrime in 2021 — a 64% increase from the year before. A staggering number of those victims weren't Fortune 500 companies. They were regular people, sitting at home computers,
In April 2022, researchers at Palo Alto Unit 42 reported that nearly 99% of cloud user accounts, services, and resources grant excessive permissions — permissions that are granted but never used. That gap between what's allowed and what's needed is exactly where threat actors operate. If you&
In April 2022, researchers at Wiz discovered that Microsoft Azure's PostgreSQL Flexible Server had vulnerabilities allowing cross-account database access. They called it ExtraReplica, and it affected thousands of Azure databases. This wasn't a theoretical exercise — it was a real demonstration that security in cloud computing remains
The Phishing Email That Cost Ubiquiti $46.7 Million In 2015, networking giant Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that attackers used carefully crafted phishing emails to trick finance department employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts controlled by threat actors. The emails impersonated executives. They looked legitimate. And trained professionals
In 2020, a 10-person insurance agency in Oregon lost $285,000 in a single business email compromise attack. The threat actor spoofed the owner's email address, sent a wire transfer request to the bookkeeper, and the money was gone in 47 minutes. No malware. No Hollywood hacking. Just
Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom in May 2021. Within months, JBS Foods handed over $11 million. Kaseya's supply chain attack hit over 1,500 businesses in a single weekend. And those are just the ones that made headlines. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint
The 61% Problem You're Probably Ignoring The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 61% of all breaches involved credential data. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state malware. Stolen, weak, or reused passwords. That single statistic should reshape how your organization thinks about password security best practices
The 123456 Problem Is Worse Than You Think In December 2021, NordPass published its annual list of the most common passwords. Sitting at number one — for the third year running — was "123456." Number two? "123456789." These aren't passwords from 2005. They're passwords
The Breach That Started With "Company2019!" In January 2021, a security researcher discovered that a SolarWinds intern had used the password "solarwinds123" on a critical internal server. That detail, revealed during congressional hearings, became one of the most embarrassing footnotes in what was already one of
