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Does poor password hygiene still hamper your ability to achieve high security standards?

Issued by: Help Net Security

While more businesses are investing in security measures like multifactor authentication (MFA), employees still have poor password habits that weaken companies’ overall security posture, according to LastPass. Given that stolen and reused credentials are linked to 80 percent of hacking-related breaches, businesses must take more action to improve password and access security to make a…

Network Security

Employees are mistakenly confident that they can spot phishing emails

Issued by: Help Net Security

While a majority (79%) of people say they are able to distinguish a phishing message from a genuine one, nearly half (49%) also admit to having clicked on a link from an unknown sender while at work, according to a Webroot survey. Further, nearly half (48%) of respondents said their personal or financial data had…

Network Security

How AI can improve user experience and security for the finance industry

Issued by: Help Net Security

For the last 50 years, the fundamental and largely unchanged model for identifying and authenticating users has been based on the combination of a username and password, sometimes augmented with “second factor” techniques. While this approach has mostly served financial and other high-security industries well, it’s increasingly shown to suffer from five drawbacks: 1. Complex…

Application Security

Vulnerability Leaves Container Images Without Passwords

Issued by: Dark Reading

Nearly one in five of the most popular containers available on the Docker store have no password for root access. That’s the finding of researcher Jerry Gamblin, building on work by researchers at Cisco Talos. The result could easily be hundreds of thousands of containers deployed with no functional password at all. The finding is…

Network Security

Despite warnings, most people still don’t change their passwords

Issued by: Help Net Security

64% of people use the same password for some, or even all, of their online accounts, while only 21% use a different password for each account. These startling findings come from a survey of 1,050 people in the UK carried out by Bilendi on behalf European email services company, GMX. According to the survey, 9%…

Network Security

Tips to spring clean your company’s social media and stay protected

Issued by: Help Net Security

With springtime comes warmer weather, sunnier days, and—somewhat inexplicably—the urge to purge. And while many will budget extra time to clear out closets or downsize their collection of coffee table books, spring is also a great time for organizations and businesses to examine or re-evaluate the security posture of their social media presence and related…

Vulnerabilities

Most IoT devices are being compromised by exploiting rudimentary vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cybercriminals are looking for ways to use trusted devices to gain control of Internet of Things (IoT) devices via password cracking and exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as through the exploitation via voice assistants, according to the latest Mobile Threat Report unveiled by McAfee. With over 25 million voice assistants in use across the world, these…

Network Security

Consumers Care About Security – Sometimes

Issued by: Dark Reading

Consumer concern about cybersecurity and privacy is very real but not evenly distributed, a new report shows: while passwords and financial information are worrying for everyone, concern about other information varies widely depending on the individual’s age, gender, and national origin. The RSA Data Privacy & Security Survey 2019 of more than 6,000 adults contains…

Malware & Threats

773 Million Email Addresses, 21 Million Passwords For Sale on Hacker Forum

Issued by: Dark Reading

A folder with over 12,000 files containing nearly 773 million email addresses and over 21 million unique passwords from numerous previous data breaches — some potentially dating back to 2008 — has been posted online in another massive leak of credential data. Security researcher Troy Hunt discovered the 87 GB worth of data on cloud…

Vulnerabilities

The Inconvenient Truth About Your Eight-Character Password

Issued by: Security Intelligence

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), which means it’s time to talk about passwords for the umpteenth time. Why beat this dead horse again? Because just about everyone still uses passwords, and even the most recent password security recommendations do not make them any stronger. This year, the recommendation was eight characters —…