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Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:00:50 +0000
We all know the IT security industry is suffering from chronic skills gaps and shortages around the world. In the US things are no different, with an estimated talent shortfall of around 40,000 jobs for information security analyst roles alone. While various initiatives have been proposed, few have managed to make a dent on the…
Do you know your MDM from MAM and EMM? It's all about BYOD, and how companies can keep data safe while making it easier for workers to be productive with their own devices.
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:30:22 +0000
Governments need to focus on real-world solutions to terrorism. The post Blaming the Internet For Terrorism Misses The Point appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Boursier| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:00:43 +0000
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| We recently updated our redirections rule in HTTPS-Everywhere, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to the HTTPS version of the website you are trying to visit. Now is a good time for us to give a short overview of how important HTTPS is. We’ll also talk about a few major HTTPS-related events that happened lately. Categories: Tags: HTTPSprivacy awareness weekprotectionsecurityvulnerability |
The post HTTPS… Everywhere! appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Eugene Kaspersky| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:02:28 +0000
We’ve already filed a complaint against Microsoft in Russia; now we’re doing the same in Europe.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:33:24 +0000
The arrest of an alleged source of a classified leak to the Intercept offers a lesson in the risks of spilling secrets. The post Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Sandra Henry-Stocker| Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:13:00 -0700
In the last few years, we’ve been seeing some significant changes in the suggestions that security experts are making for password security. While previous guidance increasingly pushed complexity in terms of password length, the mix of characters used, controls over password reuse, and forced periodic changes, specialists have been questioning whether making passwords complex wasn’t actually working against security concerns rather than promoting them.
Security specialists have also argued that forcing complexity down users’ throats has led to them writing passwords down or forgetting them and having to get them reset. They argued that replacing a password character with a digit or an uppercase character might make a password look complicated, but does not actually make it any less vulnerable to compromise. In fact, when users are forced to include a variety of characters in their passwords, they generally do so in very predictable ways. Instead of “password”, they might use “Passw0rd” or even “P4ssw0rd!”, but the variations don’t make the passwords significantly less guessable. People are just not very good at generating anything that’s truly random.
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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:30:22 +0000
At the world’s biggest human-computer interaction conference, researchers threatened by Trump’s travel ban use telepresence robots to bridge the divide. The post Banned From the US? There’s a Robot for That appeared first on WIRED.
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