16 billion leaked credentials. A €2.2–2.5 billion shutdown at JLR. One stale service account exposed data across four major firms. Here's what the biggest data breaches of 2025–2026 reveal about credential risk, and the six controls that would have stopped most of them.
Four EU member states referred to court, the Netherlands' NIS2 law enters force August 15, Germany's BSI is auditing 29,000 entities, and the EU published its first AI-cybersecurity action plan. Here's everything that changed in June–July 2026.
GDPR, NIS2, ANSSI 2027 — the regulatory pressure keeps building. We compare Passwork and 1Password on the criteria that matter to European businesses: data sovereignty, audit readiness, deployment model, and real total cost of ownership.
15,000 Fortinet credentials exposed. 27 million recovered from dismantled infostealers. A French national registry breached through one government account. Meanwhile, Europe is advancing post-quantum authentication and AI-driven identity security. 8 key stories and what they mean for your team.
Complexity rules failed. Adding @ to your dog's name doesn't make a password strong — it makes it predictable. This guide covers what NIST SP 800-63B actually requires, why Diceware beats every complexity rule, and the one-passphrase system that solves the rest.
This week: 86,000 Fortinet devices compromised, 24 billion credentials leaked, OAuth tokens stolen via a forgotten service account, and an AI agent exfiltrated AWS credentials in under two minutes. 14 incidents, one pattern — and three actions your team can take right now.
LDAP still runs identity infrastructure at 90% of enterprises — and it's an active attack surface. Two critical RCE vulnerabilities patched in 2025, credential harvesting at record levels. What to fix, how to harden it, and where the real risk sits.
SHA-256 is mathematically sound — but that doesn't make your passwords safe. How the algorithm works, where implementations fail, and what correct password storage actually looks like.
AES-256 has no practical weakness — classical or quantum. The real risk is everything around it: key management, access control, and credential hygiene. Here's what actually gets organizations breached, and what to fix first.
The new release brings independent token lifecycle management, flexible SSL certificate verification, and multi-URL support for password items.
