NIST and the UK's NCSC currently recommend not enforcing frequent password changes, and instead to use longer passphrases over shorter passwords. We take a look at the math to see what really makes sense, and arrive at some straightforward suggestions.
NIST and the UK's NCSC currently recommend not enforcing frequent password changes, and instead to use longer passphrases over shorter passwords. We take a look at the math to see what really makes sense, and arrive at some straightforward suggestions.
Despite how they sound, Spring4Shell and the related vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework aren’t exactly like Log4Shell. Learn how they work and what you can do.
Despite how they sound, Spring4Shell and the related vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework aren’t exactly like Log4Shell. Learn how they work and what you can do.
Distributed denial-of-service attacks soared in complexity and size during 2021. While the overall number of DDoS attacks declined marginally compared with 2020, the F5 Silverline team saw the largest attack in 2021 peak at nearly 1.4 Tbps, 5.5 times larger than the largest attack in 2020.