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A Breach, or Just a Forced Password Reset?
2018-12-04 21:45

Software 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.


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