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Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) customers were the targets of billions of phishing emails and brute force attacks successfully blocked last year by Microsoft. The Microsoft Detection ...

Chinese researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have uncovered a new method of attack that can bypass user authentication on modern smartphones by brute-forcing fingerprints, ...

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A Ukrainian man has been handed a four-year jail term for stealing thousands of server logins and putting them up for sale on the dark web. Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, 28, from Chernivtsi, was ...

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Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no ...

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