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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. The actor logged the information provided by the employee and used it in real-time to gain access to corporate tools using the employee’s account.” “voice phishing” a.k.a. “vishing”).

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

The Last Watchdog

I interviewed Sharon Vardi, Trusona’s chief marketing officer, about what the path forward looks like, in terms of someday eliminating passwords from digital commerce. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.

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Selecting the Right Cloud SSO Solution for Your Organization

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Modern architectures and applications place additional demands on access management tools. Originally developed for consumer services, the FIDO2 standard evolved and was adopted by Microsoft for Windows Hello. Danna Bethlehem | Director, Product Marketing. Selecting the Right Cloud SSO Solution for Your Organization.

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In Praise of the Invisible DB2 for z/OS System

Robert's Db2

I was with IBM when DB2 was introduced to the market. What is consequential to developers who want data-as-a-service capability is consistency and ease of use, and those concerns have much to do with the rapid rise of REST as a means of invoking programmatically-consumable services.