Tales From the Road: When the City Library Can Access the SCADA Network, It’s Time to Rebuild
10.06.22DirectDefense conducted cyber penetration tests for a municipality and found some significant gaps within the SCADA network.
10.06.2210.06.22Tag: Password Protection
10.06.22
Tales From the Road: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat of Your Physical Security?
07.27.22DirectDefense conducted a physical security test at a utility company and was able to have their run of the business – and a Tesla.
Tales from the Road: The Anatomy of Password Attacks
03.16.22It’s time to rethink your password policy to prevent modern password attacks. If you think your company’s policy of requiring passwords to have a minimum length of eight characters, in addition to other complexity requirements, is sufficient to effectively prevent modern password attacks, think again. Our client, a global corporation with business units in more… Read more »
Tales from the Road: Y2K Called, It Wants Its Passwords Back
12.16.20Part 1: Get Inside the Heads of the DirectDefense Team as We Launched an Attack on a Client’s System to Bypass Passwords and Gain Access to “Protected” Critical Data This post is the first in a 2-part series addressing the need for strong passwords across all industries to adequately protect important company and user data.… Read more »
Tales from the Road: It’s 2020 and Your Passwords Still Suck
12.16.20Part 2: Get Rid of Weak Passwords like Winter2020 and Password1 – Our Attack into One Company’s Database Highlights the Risk of Poor Passwords This post is the second in our 2-part series addressing the need for strong passwords across all industries to adequately protect critical information. In a recent client engagement, we set out… Read more »
