TraceSecurity Blog

What to Know About the Social Security Number Breach

What is Password Salting?

There are three ways that a password can be stored: plaintext, encryption, and hashing. Password salting is one of many techniques that fall under hashing.

Homograph Phishing Attacks: Explained

Homograph attacks are a phenetic reader's worst nightmare - did you know domains can use different alphabets?

Password Storage: What You Need to Know

In modern times, passwords are used everywhere to secure information. But do you ever wonder how they work?

Best Practices for Hiring in the Digital Age

With technology and the increasing demand for remote work, bad actors have been able to infiltrate even the strongest hiring practices.

The Ticketmaster Databreach: Explained

What Happened With CrowdStrike

The CrowdStrike update caused a massive outage across the world. It caused airlines, banks, and even hospitals to shut down.

The NCUA's 2024 Cybersecurity and Credit Union System Resilience Report: Explained

Every year, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) provides a Cybersecurity and Credit Union System Resilience Report to highlight and pinpoint rising threats and important focuses on vulnerabilities that credit unions may face.

Explaining the Car Dealership Cyberattack

A hacker group has successfully infiltrated CDK Global’s network, stealing data on millions of customers and putting ransomware on much of their network.

CDK Global Ransomware Attack: What Happened and What Can We Learn?

The cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company CDK Global who provides services to car dealerships was targeted in a ransomware attack.