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Protecting yourself against credential stuffing

In this post, we’ll talk about protecting yourself against credential stuffing by using password managers and MFA. It feels like every week there’s a news story about credentials or personally identifiable information being leaked.

Although these measures are great defensive measures against web application attacks, many end user credentials are still being compromised and unauthorized user account access continues to be an issue.

Let’s take a look at the attacks that cause web application credential compromises and the ways you (the end user) can protect yourself against them.

These attacks are leveraged by hackers to compromise web application databases and obtain user credentials for the credential stuffing attacks we discussed.