Jamie Buranich

December 4, 2018

A Breach, or Just a Forced Password Reset?

This post was originally published on this siteSoftware giant Citrix Systems recently forced a password reset for many users of its Sharefile content collaboration service, warning it would be doing this on a regular basis in response to password-guessing attacks that target people who re-use passwords across multiple Web sites. Many Sharefile users interpreted this as a breach at Citrix and/or Sharefile, but the company maintains that’s not the case. Here’s a closer look at what happened, and some ideas about how to avoid a repeat of this scenario going forward. The notice sent to ShareFile users looked like this: Dozens […]