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SMS Security & Privacy Gaps Make It Clear Users Need a Messaging Upgrade

Google Security

People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their bank accounts. Like any forty-year-old technology, SMS is antiquated compared to its modern counterparts.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Series: Using Technology to Safeguard the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This problem is magnified by the adoption of newer technologies, such as cloud, big data, internet of things (IoT), software containers and other transformative technologies that make defining a perimeter much more difficult. Perimeter defense, while necessary, is not enough to protect our sensitive data.

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How online retailers can boost sales completion at checkout

CyberSecurity Insiders

The solution leverages industry standards and advanced technology, enabling merchants to ensure the best, most secure digital experience for consumers across all channels and environments. . The technology ensures payment information is kept up to date, while the token remains the same. Higher approval rates.

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Gmail client-side encryption: A deep dive

Google Security

KACLS performs cryptographic operations with encryption keys after validating end-user authentication and authorization. In order to provide separation of duty, we use the customer's OpenID Connect (OIDC) IdP to authenticate end-users and provide a JSON Web Token assertion with a claim identifying the user (3P_JWT).

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How to ensure security and trust in connected cars

CyberSecurity Insiders

Technologies that enable connectivity in cars. With unparalleled speeds, low latency and capacity which should be able to support one million connected devices per square kilometre, the technical capabilities offered by 5G will allow manufacturers to push connected car technology to new limits. The role of eSIM.

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Want Passwordless to Succeed? Make It Easy

Duo's Security Blog

The Promise of Passwordless If you've been following the evolution of passwordless, you've likely read countless blog posts and whitepapers pondering the promise of this technology. While secure passwordless technology removes the password, it does so by replacing it with stronger factors like device identity or biometrics.

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

Security Boulevard

Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. The threat model for authentication is a little more complicated: a quantum computer could be used to stage a man-in-the-middle attack , for instance, and to modify aspects of the past message, like the sender's identity, retroactively. Crypto-agility.