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CNIL Releases Guidance on Teleworking

Hunton Privacy

Implementing a Virtual Private Network (“VPN”) solution to avoid direct exposure of the organization’s services on the Internet. If possible, organizations should enable two-factor authentication for VPN login. More generally, employees should not do at home what they are not permitted to do in the workplace.

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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Here are key takeaways.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. “These guys were not leet , just damn persistent.” “vishing”).

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