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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Backdoors.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. Multifactor a what's, what's your email, what's your password. Such as their MAC address, their IP address, their geolocation. If it's continuous authentication.