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GoDaddy offers website owners security protection on World Password Day

CyberSecurity Insiders

If anyone wants their online activity to be secure and private, password usage helps them in doing so; as it blocks unauthorized access to a service and access to personal information. About World Password Day- Every year, the first Thursday in May is being promoted as the World Password Day.

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WFH and Data Sharing: 6 Ways to Protect Your Systems via Cybersecurity

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Moreover, it has been speculated that by 2028, 73% of all departments will have remote workers. Hence apart from just using simple passwords, users are prompted to present additional information such as biometric readings or another connected device verification to in order to be granted access.

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3 Top Cloud Attacks and How to Protect Against Them

Digital Shadows

With public cloud services spending projected to hit $805 billion in 2024 and double by 2028 , understanding the threats facing cloud environments is critical. Our new report, “Five Ways Cyber Attackers Exploit Cloud Environments,” outlines the most pressing threats to the cloud.

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The Renaissance of NTLM Relay Attacks: Everything You Need to Know

Security Boulevard

It was developed in 1993, in the unfortunate days when DES was the standard encryption algorithm, so thats what Microsoft used to generate the response, as described in the diagrambelow: As shown above, the clients password is transformed into an NT hash, which is the MD4 hash of the Unicode-encoded password, to be used as the DES encryption key.

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The Cybersecurity Challenge in Mergers and Acquisitions

Digital Shadows

Managing Threats from Inherited Assets Previously beyond the control of the acquiring entity, inherited assets introduce issues ranging from default passwords on servers to the lurking presence of dormant nation-state actors hiding within the network.