Unused identities: A growing security threat

2021-12-13 08:12

This article has been indexed from

In early May 2021, Colonial Pipeline, the operator of the pipeline that pumps 45% of the East Coast’s fuel, announced that they had been hacked. In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the company’s president and CEO Joe Blount told lawmakers that the hackers had breached their network via a compromised legacy VPN account. This incident has nearly all the elements of security gone wrong: Compromised credentials were found … More →

The post Unused identities: A growing security threat appeared first on Help Net Security.