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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Elie

billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account. Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

” Clearly, the FBI and CISA focus on attacks against organizations in the United States, they proposed as case studies the attacks against Colonial Pipeline , JBS , and Kaseya. Using strong passwords. Using multi-factor authentication. Avoiding clicking on suspicious links. Updating OS and software.

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IBM Cloud solution tutorials: 2023 in review

IBM Big Data Hub

Powell Platform engineering on the Hybrid Cloud – While writing the case study IBM hybrid cloud delivers value for reinvestment and manages compliances , I was astounded by the breadth of applications IBM creates and supports to manage the business. AI and internal development platform were two of the highlights.

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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

The report focuses on privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology, which is becoming increasingly ubiquitous across a variety of commercial applications ranging from search engines to video games to password authentication.

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A Case Study: Implementing a Db2 for z/OS Implicit Trusted Connection

Robert's Db2

First, the backstory: the DBA's organization wanted to tighten Db2 for z/OS data security by preventing unauthorized utilization of the authentication credentials used by an application to connect to a Db2 system. Often, the ID and password in question are known by several of the application's developers. and 1.2.3.5, and 1.2.3.5,

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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Questions to Answer Consider these questions to verify your organization’s data security and threat detection strategies: Are multi-factor authentication techniques required for user access?

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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. So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. Think about it.