Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. That's an example of AI. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. “For example, they do not have a CISO or a Security Operations Center established.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. This tests against ten types of weak password related threats for example; Weak, Duplicate, Empty, Never Expires, plus six more. We have verified its authenticity. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Multi-factor authentication. This solution offers true two-factor authentication and impressive encryption capabilities. True two-factor authentication. This upgrade offers 1 GB of encrypted file storage, two-factor authentication with YubiKey, FIDO and Duo, as well as priority customer support. Password auto-filling.

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