Credential spills have doubled in the last four years

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'Credential spills are like an oil spill: once leaked, they are very hard to clean up'

A new report by cyber security firm F5 Labs reveals that the number of credential spill incidents nearly doubled between 2016 and 2020 - although the average spill size shrank, from 63 million reco...

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