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Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names

Cisco Security

It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. We’re fans: in fact, Cisco Umbrella has supported Encrypted DNS since 2011. Read more about DoH in this blog by my colleague Nancy Cam-Winget. Here’s our vision.

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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking.

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DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique

Security Affairs

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

Most recently, the company used phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication for advertising and networking purposes. On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. Facebook needs to be both explicit and detailed about how and when it shares user data.

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What is DKIM Email Security Technology? DKIM Explained

eSecurity Planet

The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication standard enables email servers to check incoming emails to verify the sender and detect email message alterations. At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. The “p” field is the public encryption key value.

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Aussie Telcos are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics

Troy Hunt

She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank. Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively).

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries.