Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed to improve security without hindering user convenience. What is Strong Authentication? The IAM Security Boundary Strong authentication is a critical component of modern-day identity and access management.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online. The post FIDO: Consumers are Adopting Passkeys for Authentication appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on the 28 th of January. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness about how businesses and individuals can promote the implementation of privacy and data protection best practices. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Tangible changes and measures, like the use of phishing resilient MFA and strong passwords, are considered of great importance as they can mitigate future data breach risks and improve data security drastically.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Companies will adopt stricter identity verification and access controls, ensuring that even internal users face rigorous authentication processes. Enhanced Focus on Data Privacy Data breaches have shown no signs of slowing down. By 2025, stricter global regulations on data privacy, such as GDPR-style laws, will emerge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 29, 2021

Security report submitted by CR Digital Lab says that they have carried out their research based on few metrics such as automatic software updates, email notification when the user logs into the device from a unique IP address, 2-factor authentication and others.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues were viewable without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The General Election Commission (KPU) had also confirmed the authenticity of the data, such as home addresses and national identification numbers. Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country in terms of population and the leak of electoral data can have grave consequences needless to say. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Sarkar points out that data privacy regulations like GDPR in Europe have set a strong precedent for managing personal data more responsibly, suggesting that comparable regulatory measures in the U.S. could prompt healthcare organizations to improve both security and data governance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2025

Stricter requirements for identity verification and authentication across all patient touchpoints. Contingency plans for restoring data within 72 hours during incidents. Centralized policy management simplifies compliance with Privacy Rule restrictions on PHI sharing. Mandatory encryption of all ePHI.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Understanding Data Privacy: Keeping Your Data Secure IdentityIQ With the rise of online platforms, social media, and e-commerce, personal information has become more vulnerable to mishandling and exploitation. Data privacy is the cornerstone of helping protect your personal information from unauthorized access or exposure.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

With IAM, you can get a clear picture of all login activity and add extra security controls around applications that store M&A data. For instance, you can scope down access to specific users and roles via role-based access control (RBAC) and then add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to verify each user is who they say they are.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

The Future of Authentication: Passwordless Gains Ground The Slow Death of Passwords Password-related frustrations drove 18% of consumers to switch brands in 2025 , up from 16% in 2024. However, adoption of passwordless authentication grew modestly, with 75% of consumers prioritizing it in 2025 (vs. 72% in 2024). 72% in 2024).

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! This highlights an increasing demand for advanced authentication methods like passkeys and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which provide robust security for most use cases. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Multi-Factor Authentication The Ultimate Guide to Multi-Factor Authentication The Importance of Multi-Factor Authentication The Importance of Multi-Factor Authentication In today’s digital age, the security of sensitive information and data is of utmost importance.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Data privacy and protection VR systems—augmented by AI or not—collect and process large amounts of user data, from behaviors and preferences to sensitive and personally identifiable information. As such, multi-factor authentication (MFA) becomes exceptionally vital in preserving spaces and the data held within them.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2022

The post Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser appeared first on The Shared Security Show. The post Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

As the National Law Review puts it ‘2021 was a blink-and-you-will-miss conveyor belt of activities’ regarding privacy and data protection law related legal developments, including the issuance of new data privacy standards that explores how organizations establish, implement, maintain and continually improve their data privacy management systems.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

However, in a classic good versus evil showdown, AI also delivers the most effective defense by detecting subtle differences between authentic and synthetic IDs and in the ID document verification as part of the onboarding stage. Referencing Entrusts own 2025 Identity Fraud Report , there is a deepfake attempt every 5 minutes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Go Beyond FIDO Standards: Best Practices When Deploying FIDO Security Keys in Enterprise madhav Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:22 Initially designed for the consumer market, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard aims to replace passwords with more secure authentication methods for online services. While recent versions, like FIDO2.1, standard (i.e.,

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Still, the top response stood out clearlyprotecting data privacy. The thing is, secure communication goes beyond just protecting data privacy. For one, they often lack control over user access and authentication, leaving the door open for anyone to join group conversationsor worse, impersonate someone else.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

” Hunt’s analysis didn’t say how many unique SSNs were included in the leaked data. But according to researchers at Atlas Data Privacy Corp. It was never a good idea to use as an authenticator to begin with, and it is certainly no longer suitable for this purpose.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

From GDPR updates to sector-specific regulations like HIPAA and PCI DSS, companies will face new mandates to protect sensitive data. Future cybersecurity trends point to even stricter compliance regimes, including regulations that focus on AI ethics and data privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Data privacy breaches expose sensitive details about customers, staff, and company financials. Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

But these moments of personal crisis have few, immediate solutions, as the current proposals to curb and stem online harassment zero in on the systemic—such as changes in data privacy laws to limit the personal information that can be weaponized online or calls for major social media platforms to better moderate hateful content and its spread.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

When admins choose ‘Run as Administrator’ mode, they’ll now be prompted to authenticate with a password, PIN, or other methods, rather than just clicking ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Another social network, Pinterest, is also under scrutiny over targeted ads, following a complaint by the privacy rights group noyb.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, M&A is a complex undertaking, and integrating and consolidating IT, cybersecurity and data privacy infrastructure only adds to the challenge. Patient data exposures. Healthcare data security and privacy is a problem that continues to grow.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2023

Next, we dive into a case where a photographer tried to get his photos removed from an AI dataset, only to receive an invoice instead of having his photos taken […] The post Juice Jacking Debunked, Photographer vs. AI Dataset, Google Authenticator Risks appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2024

Not OK: SMS 2FA — Widespread spam targets carrier employees, as scrotes try harder to evade two-factor authentication. The post SIM Swappers Try Bribing T-Mobile and Verizon Staff $300 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hoff Alex Hoff , Chief Strategy Officer, Auvik Networks As technology evolves, regulations struggle to keep pace, especially around AI and data privacy. Tech companies are adopting cybersecurity by design, embedding encryption, biometrics, and multi-factor authentication into products.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. The public key assures you, the user, that you’re clicking to the authentic, certified Amazon site; and it also encrypts any data you transmit to, and receive from, Amazon. And it would open up new areas of data mining.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

Furthermore, even if all vaccinators were to act as saints, healthcare organizations are regularly breached by hackers ; criminals constantly seek to steal relevant data for exploitation in order to commit insurance fraud, Medicare fraud, identity theft, and other nefarious acts.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

ASPM toolsets came along in 2020 or so to help organizations get more organized about monitoring and updating code security as part of meeting data privacy and security regulations. Then there’s the sub-category of application security posture management ( ASPM.) Cigent provides security-enhanced SSDs and microSDs.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This breach highlighted the need for robust vendor risk management practices and reinforced the necessity of multi-factor authentication to safeguard sensitive information. The attackers gained access to confidential patient information, which raised alarms about data privacy and patient trust.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) but consider your MFA channels MFA is a security measure that requires users to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to an account or application. Users must enable two-factor authentication, set a passcode, and activate Face ID or Touch ID to use this feature.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 3, 2021

a data advocacy group discovered the attack and alerted all online users that they should not believe the latest email campaign that claims to be backed by NHS. According to the data privacy group of UK, the phishing campaign is spreading in two email forms.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

We remain committed to our system’s security, data privacy, and the protection of personal information.” We have also advised law enforcement of this incident. ” ANALYSIS. The AMCA also does business under the name “ Retrieval-Masters Credit Bureau ,” a company that has been in business since 1977.

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