Organizations remain vulnerable to brute force attacks

Gaining access to accounts is often done the old-fashioned way, using brute force guesses, but a new report reveals that many devices and accounts still have default usernames and passwords. The study from visibility and testing company Ixia shows the top five username guesses as root, admin, ubnt, support, and user -- ubnt being the default username for AWS and other cloud services based on Ubuntu. Among other things the report reveals are the top five phishing targets as being Google, Paypal, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alibaba. Over the summer of 2016 ransomware attacks outpaced conventional phishing. Fake Adobe updates are… [Continue Reading]