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Password Advice for the Rest of Us

By: Steve Ragan β€” October 1st 2024 at 07:01
Passwords are a problem and it’s hard to make a good one. So what can you do? Make them long, make them random, and maybe use a password manager.
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6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication

By: The Hacker News β€” May 14th 2024 at 10:51
Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication sophistication to adequately safeguard organizational data. When deploying
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Google Simplifies 2-Factor Authentication Setup (It's More Important Than Ever)

By: Newsroom β€” May 7th 2024 at 10:02
Google on Monday announced that it's simplifying the process of enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for users with personal and Workspace accounts. Also called 2-Step Verification (2SV), it aims to add an extra layer of security to users' accounts to prevent takeover attacks in case the passwords are stolen. The new change entails adding a second step method, such as an
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TheMoon Botnet Resurfaces, Exploiting EoL Devices to Power Criminal Proxy

By: Newsroom β€” March 29th 2024 at 12:12
A botnet previously considered to be rendered inert has been observed enslaving end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices to fuel a criminal proxy service called Faceless. "TheMoon, which emerged in 2014, has been operating quietly while growing to over 40,000 bots from 88 countries in January and February of 2024," the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen
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Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs

By: Newsroom β€” March 28th 2024 at 08:07
In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to give away their friends' email addresses in exchange for free pizza. "Whereas people say they care about privacy, they are willing to relinquish private data quite easily when
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Key Lesson from Microsoft’s Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account

By: The Hacker News β€” March 25th 2024 at 11:37
In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability – the hackers used a simple password spray attack to take control of
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