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Should World Password Day Become World 2FA Day?

Checking the National Day Calendar today, I see that it is World Password Day. I found it interesting that the primary website dedicated to this seems not to have been updated since last year (maybe...

SMBs Need 2FA Also

I’m sure you’ve heard about the numerous cyber attacks on big businesses like Target, Chase Bank, Equifax, and Sony, and other large organizations like the U.S. Government. These are big enterprises that have the resources...

Standards for Complex Passwords, Now Useless?

There are a lot of ways to create “complex” passwords – use different passwords for different accounts, do not use names and special dates, use a combination of letters, numbers and characters, etc. Having a...

UK Parliament Hit By Cyber Attack

Late last week, the UK Parliament was under a “sustained” cyber attack. Of course, the hackers were exploiting a known weakness common to many organizations — single-factor authentication which relies solely on passwords. The parliamentary...

The Most Popular (and Worst) Passwords

A recent study of five million leaked passwords from enterprises in 2016 revealed the most popular ones among users. Tops on the list was “123456,” which makes up about 4% of the sample set, followed...

Cloudbleed – More Bad News For Using Passwords Alone

A new internet security vulnerability was announced last week, and it is “a scary big deal“. Cloudbleed, the name given to this vulnerability, has led to a potentially wide-spread leak of passwords and other data...

Phishing Scheme Allows Access to Los Angeles County Confidential Records

Last month, charges were filed against a hacker who used a phishing scheme in May 2016 to potentially access over 750,000 confidential health and personal records in Los Angeles County. As this incident shows, phishing...

GreenRADIUS enhancements for 2017? It’s up to you!

2016 has been an exciting year for GreenRADIUS. Apart from security-related updates and bug fixes, your feedback has been the basis of over 50 new features and improvements to GreenRADIUS during the year! The top...

Top 10 New GreenRADIUS Features and Improvements in 2016

It was a busy, but successful 2016 for us! The following list of new GreenRADIUS features and improvements in 2016 were almost all based on customer feedback and requirements. So we would love to hear...

Password Guessing Is Becoming Easier And Easier

With all of the leaked passwords that have been made available recently (passwords from services such as Yahoo and LinkedIn), cyber-criminals have access to vast data sets of passwords that make it easier to crack...