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The 61% Problem Nobody Talks About The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 61% of all breaches involved credentials. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state malware. Passwords. Stolen, reused, guessed, and phished passwords remain the single largest attack vector threat actors exploit today. I've spent years
The Breach That Started With a Single Reused Password In December 2020, the SolarWinds breach dominated every security headline on the planet. But while the world fixated on nation-state threat actors and supply chain attacks, I kept thinking about a detail that emerged early: a SolarWinds intern had reportedly set
In December 2020, SolarWinds disclosed a supply chain compromise that shook the entire cybersecurity industry. But while the world was focused on nation-state threat actors, Verizon's 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report had already confirmed something far more common and just as devastating: over 80% of hacking-related breaches involved
