"Everyone needs to understand what the combination of poor passwords means in today's world of automated cyber attacks: with only minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to one new account every second," says Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman.
A traditional SSH bruteforce attack tried numerous combinations of username:password couples on one target IP.
The new Firefox Accounts uses the usual combination of email and password instead of random codes.
Face and voice biometrics are used to log-in to the app, doing away with a combination of pincodes and passwords — a reflection of Atom's target audience of millennials.
In this security model, the combination of subject id and password is used for authentication to the Single Sign-On domain.
Typically, it is some combination of "user", "admin", or "password".
It's highly unlikely that the "hacker" (or it may have been a group of hackers) was not able to breach Apple's security in general, but instead targeted specific victims using a combination of social engineering, cracking the password or using Apple's "Forgot my password" route.
Later, when the target of the surveillance is not around, the Spector recordings can be played back by entering a secret combination of keys and then a password.
If the user needs to recover his/her avatar web link and or password, the combination of giving the username and answering the secret question can be used.
Always make your password a combination of letters, symbols and numbers.
