Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 30, 2024

From AI-generated phishing attacks to badly behaved bots, these digital ghouls are more than just scary stories—they're real threats to your business and personal security. Next, multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds another layer of security by requiring users to verify their identity through multiple methods.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. The leading B2C VPNs all recognize this and have begun promoting the use of personal VPNs as, essentially, a DIY security tool. Related: Privacy war: Apple vs. Facebook.

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Today’s columnist, Jasson Casey of Beyond Identity, offers a path for security teams to move off shared secrets and embrace a passwordless world. It’s World Password Day, do the company’s users still rely on passwords? Has the security team replaced them? Eliminate passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

These shady services, Hunt says, allow interested parties, including criminals, to access records that contain usernames, passwords (including in clear text), email addresses, and IP addresses. It has Terms of Service that include: You may only use this service for your own personal security and research.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This allows you to password protect your software so that it can’t be removed remotely. This dashboard provides an easy-to-understand assessment of your computer’s security with a single comprehensive protection score, and clear, expert-driven advice. Here are the innovations we’ve made in our products recently. Trusted Advisor.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 20, 2021

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was not a Security Consultant. And I worked as a corporate Chef for an organization that required very long, complex passwords that had to change every 90 days and could not match your last 6 passwords. I was a Chef. I was super busy, ….

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

How to Help Protect Yourself from a Data Breach While the threat to your personal security can be extremely unsettling, regular privacy scans, strong passwords and authentication, updated software, and being mindful as to what you share online, are major preventative measures you can practice daily to significantly help mitigate this risk.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The most effective security is based on multiple layers of perimeter security, so that if one layer fails you’re still well protected. For example, if you have a policy that prohibits employees from sharing their passwords with other employees, create a fake email that asks employees to confirm their passwords.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

businesses gain the flexibility to define and deploy personalized security measures aligned with their specific cardholder data environment (CDE) setup. The innovative Customised Approach empowers well-established organisations to intricately specify their existing security controls to fulfil the objectives for each requirement.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you’re not taking your personal security seriously at every level, that misstep might allow others to gain access to your personal information (like your website login details), and act maliciously to spread their negative results to others. Simple Security Steps to Implement Today. WordPress starts with people.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month taught us the importance of safe practices such as the use of multifactor authentication, strong passwords, and VPNs. Only through learning about the tactic’s scammers use can we truly continue to improve our own personal security.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s a wealth of password management options available, some more desirable than others. Others involve syncing passwords with services such as Dropbox. The big book of passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

For example, here's Jordan's go at deflecting his role in the ecosystem and yes, this was the entire terms of service: I particularly like this clause: You may only use this tool for your own personal security and data research. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Vladimir : All team members should pay attention to the security of the code they write, but at least one person per team should see the bigger picture throughout the product lifecycle and be responsible for security overall. Personally, security training helps me learn new security attacks and stay up to speed.

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Veracode Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Vladimir : All team members should pay attention to the security of the code they write, but at least one person per team should see the bigger picture throughout the product lifecycle and be responsible for security overall. Personally, security training helps me learn new security attacks and stay up to speed.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The first pass of your delete list might well be longer than a CVS receipt, because these days the average person has 100 password-protected accounts to manage, but don’t worry!

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

TotalAV is an antivirus product with a virtual private network (VPN) solution and other traditional antivirus and personal security features. 5 Security and privacy: 2/5 Customer support: 2.1/5 5 Security and privacy: 2/5 Customer support: 2.1/5 Other features include ad blocking and password management.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security. It didn't matter whether individual accounts had a complicated and hard-to-remember password, or two-factor authentication.

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