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Facebook trawls through paste sites for compromised credentials
In the spirit of November as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Facebook security engineer Chris Long shared how the company discovers that some of its users’ …
Poor password habits plague our digital lifestyle
Poor password habits are putting employers at risk and losing them hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost productivity, according to new research from Centrify. According to …
Infographic: 4 authentication definitions you should know
This infographic by Wave Systems addresses current authentication problems and illustrates how to ensure that only known users access corporate resources, devices and …
Public Wi-Fi and lack of passwords lead consumer risks
93 percent of respondents believe that identity theft is a growing problem yet are not doing enough to address the issue, according to a survey conducted by Edelman Berland. …
Low confidence in breach prevention
Despite increasing numbers of data breaches and the theft and loss of more than 2 billion data records worldwide since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter …
Password security is not just a user problem
When high profile password compromises occur, we often spend a lot of time focusing on advice to the users – “Use strong passwords;” “Don’t reuse …
PoS vendor confirms Jimmy John’s breach was their fault
Signature Systems, the PoS system vendor that has been named as the likely point of origin of the Jimmy John’s payment data breach, has confirmed that the attacker(s) …
Payment card info of 880k Viator customers compromised
Payment card and personal information of approximately 1.4 million Viator.com customers may have been compromised in a breach that was confirmed late last Friday. The popular …
How to keep your contactless payments secure
Contactless transactions – ranging from access control and ticketing to financial payments – emerged almost two decades ago and, since then, have become widely …
Apple adds two-step verification for iCloud
Apple has announced that the two-step verification option for iCloud accounts now also extends to iCloud backups, preventing attackers who know the target’s password …
Massive Gmail credential leak is not result of a breach
By now, you might have heard that there has been a leak of a nearly 5 million username and password combinations associated with Google accounts. According to an RT report, …
Apple built multi-factor authenticated payment in the right order
As an American living in Europe I have been perplexed at multi-factor authentication for payments. The Americans (laggards in my opinion) have been using magnetic stripe cards …
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