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If you’re writing down your passwords on adhesive notes or in a journal, you might need a refresher on password security best practices.
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If you’re writing down your passwords on adhesive notes or in a journal, you might need a refresher on password security best practices.
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Creating a strong password for every website that you use is the essential first step in secure online behaviour. This advice from UK Gov’t is at first glance very good advice. But it implies that you only need different secure passwords for a few important online accounts, Your email, your bank … Continue reading → Continue reading Creating and using a strong individual password for every online account.
Fraudsters have rendered traditional authentication factors — something you know, something you have and something you are — ineffective.
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As the threat of cyberattacks looms over Europe in the months preceding several crucial elections, Alphabet subsidiary companies Jigsaw and Google announced Tuesday the launch of a security tool package to help election organizers and civic groups ward off hackers and other forms of digital interference. The announcement comes one day after FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers that he fully expects Russian intelligence services to continue interfering in the U.S. electoral process because of their apparent success in 2016. Known as “Protect Your Election,” the Google-Jigsaw cybersecurity software package is designed for use by a nontechnical audience and it will be provided for free to groups in France, South Korea, Germany and counties with subsequent elections, according to Jigsaw, the corporation’s tech incubator. Among other capabilities, the toolset provides technology to help stop distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, spot phishing emails and better protect passwords. DDoS-style attacks work by […]
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By reusing passwords across multiple services, users make it easier for cybercriminals to breach all their accounts, not to mention company databases.
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Online services are understandably reluctant to add steps to the login process, but a little two-factor authentication can significantly boost security.
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Will passwords become things of the past in 2017? Today, organizations tasked with managing too many passwords are at risk of phishing and malware attacks.
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Heads up everybody, we have a major change this morning in what I assume is a Locky or Dridex delivery system. The files come as RTF files but each rtf file has an individual password. None of the online automatic … Continue reading →
Rewarding users for strong password selection can be a good way to eliminate terrible password hygiene throughout an organization.
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