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Resolve to fix your Online Security Mess in 2020. Here’s how.

The Security Ledger

If you do nothing else in 2020, resolve to clean up the mess that is your online security. We give you seven simple steps to level up your password and account security. A good friend e-mailed me recently with the subject line “security stuff.” Your financial health could depend on it!

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Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Krebs on Security

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. “And I just am not seeing anything this egregious in terms of viruses and spams from the other email service providers.”

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Four ways to stay ahead of the AI fraud curve

SC Magazine

Session on deepfakes at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos, Switzerland. The new virtual world driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has given bad actors the perfect opportunity to access consumer accounts by leveraging AI and bots to commit fraud like never before. Secure and manage AI to prevent malfunctions.

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Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This ability to log in to the administrative account could have been prevented with multifactor authentication in place. The Japanese video game company Nintendo suffered a data breach in 2020 in which hackers used credential stuffing techniques to access user accounts belonging to at least 160,000 Nintendo registered users.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Account security is a big thing, like the poll worker has one set of credentials on a check in device where the district admin or a technician account, there's different accounts for different types of people that may need to be part of that whole process.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Account security is a big thing, like the poll worker has one set of credentials on a check in device where the district admin or a technician account, there's different accounts for different types of people that may need to be part of that whole process.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Account security is a big thing, like the poll worker has one set of credentials on a check in device where the district admin or a technician account, there's different accounts for different types of people that may need to be part of that whole process.

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