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Information Security vs Cyber Security: The Difference

IT Governance

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. The second sub-category of information security relates to the protection electronic information. Cyber security is a particular type of information security that focuses on the protection of electronic data.

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Weekly podcast: NCSC and Kaspersky, parliamentary passwords and macOS High Sierra (again)

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the NCSC’s warning to senior civil servants, the poor password habits of MPs, and a bug in the patch Apple rushed out last week. Dorries tweeted : “My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. For example, if a hospital’s computer system isn’t regularly updated, it can be more vulnerable to security and cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 293

Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. User@first]@@[user@first]123) and a folder named PasswordPatterswhich includes building blocks for password guessing. Jason Project GUI.

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How To Protect Yourself From Hackers

Cyber Info Veritas

Before we outline the safety hacks, let us briefly discuss why you need to protect yourself from hackers: How Safe Is Your Data: Why You Need To Protect Yourself From Hackers As the internet, computers, and connected devices (smart homes, smart appliances, etc.) become a central part of our lives, so does cybercrime and cyber insecurity.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Storing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or social security numbers in cookies is discouraged due to the potential risk of exposure.