Weak Passwords and Compromised Accounts: Key Findings from the Blue Report 2025

As security professionals, it's easy to get caught up in a race to counter the latest advanced adversary techniques. Yet the most impactful attacksoften aren't from cutting-edge exploits, but from cracked credentials and compromised accounts. Despite widespread awareness of this threat vector,...

CVE-2016-2879

IBM QRadar SIEM (7.2.x) is affected by CVE-2016-2879 due to the use of outdated hashing algorithms for certain passwords, potentially allowing a local attacker to obtain and decrypt credentials. Affected versions: QRadar 7.2.0–7.2.7. Remediation: upgrade to QRadar 7.2.8 (or other fixed release). ...