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PetSmart warns customers of credential stuffing attack

March 7, 2024 0 Comments captcha, data breach, monitoring, news, personal, petsmart, rate limiting, throttling

Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent attack that used reused passwords.

Blunting RDP brute-force attacks with rate limiting

March 11, 2022 0 Comments brute force attacks, brute force protection, explained, honeypots, password guessing, rate limiting, RDP, threat intelligence

Credit to Author: Mark Stockley| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:33:07 +0000

Rate limiting can slow a determined password guessing attack to a crawl, giving defenders months of extra time to respond.

The post Blunting RDP brute-force attacks with rate limiting appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again

December 20, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, bad passwords, data breach, data loss, how to choose a good password, password security, password strength, rate limiting, security threats, splashdata, worst passwords

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:34:49 +0000

Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6BuJWYChc5Q” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>