Insight Type: Video Research Note

Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the news of the Biden administration’s signing of an Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing a Cybersecurity Safety Review Board, as well as establishing standards for software vendors selling to the Federal government.

In this Cybersecurity Shorts episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss the 3.2 billion password leak recently released in an online form. This 100GB data set includes 2.18 million unique emails and 26 million email domains, including some 1.5 million world government emails and 625,000-ish U.S. government passwords. Even more alarming is what the human behavior that’s involved here shows threat actors looking for targets