Collaborate Disseminate
In many services, email can be used to reset the password, or do something that is sensitive. Sensitive data is also quite often sent to you by email, e.g. long links that enable access to your account or similar.
However for most people, … Continue reading Why is email often used as the ultimate verification?
Enter three random passwords into this competitor’s CASB and you’re in!
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I am increasingly being requested to join videoconferences through Zoom, which I don’t trust to run on my machine. I understand that there are two common ways of sandboxing this software: you can either download the standalone Zoom applic… Continue reading How does Chromium’s sandboxing compare to Firejail’s?
Home networks, remote working software and cloud systems will be at the center of a new wave of attacks in 2021, Trend Micro predicts. Cybercriminals in 2021 will particularly look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT … Continue reading Remote and cloud-based systems to be ruthlessly targeted next year
As evidenced by its FedRAMP Authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Bitglass’ Total Cloud Security Platform is an ideal choice for security in the government space. It is within this vertical that organizations handle… Continue reading Bitglass, The FedRAMP-Authorized Platform for Total Cloud Security
As evidenced by its FedRAMP Authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Bitglass’ Total Cloud Security Platform is an ideal choice for security in the government space. It is within this vertical that organizations handle… Continue reading Bitglass, The FedRAMP-Authorized Platform for Total Cloud Security
This has been a uniquely transformative year. Prompted by a global pandemic, we’ve been forced to change many things about how we live, work, and relate. For most businesses, this means a rapid and comprehensive shift toward remote work. While more tha… Continue reading How can companies secure a hybrid workforce in 2021?
To my understanding, it is common security practice to lock the account after X failed login attempts in N minute. Usually, the account will be locked for M minutes.
I noticed that most of the time X is 3 and usually the account needs a re… Continue reading It is common for an account to be locked after X amount of failed logins, what are the best practice of selecting x?
I have a login system for my website that works as follows:
In the database I have a table called users with the fields user, password and authentication_token.
user gets set manually by request in the database.
When a user activates his a… Continue reading Is my login script secure – how to improve it?
For the second time in less than a week, VMware is warning about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006). This time, the affected solutions are VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, VMware Identity Manager and VMware Identity Manager Connecto… Continue reading VMware releases workarounds for another critical flaw (CVE-2020-4006)