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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.)

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The Stealthy Success of Passkeys

IT Security Guru

More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code. The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence.

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