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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. In addition, educating employees about cybersecurity issues can help to reinforce the security-minded culture of the organization and change employee behaviour. Change passwords regularly. The best practice is to change passwords every 90 days.

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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing attack. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 6, 2018.

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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a breach to include login credentials and narrowing the permissible circumstances under which substitute notice may be used.

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Akira ransomware attack on Tietoevry disrupted the services of many Swedish organizations

Security Affairs

At present, Tietoevry cannot provide a definite timeframe for the complete restoration process due to the complexity of the security breach. The overall duration may span several days, possibly weeks.

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How to Address AI Security Risks With ISO 27001

IT Governance

AI penetration tests, user education, and more Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm. Just the person to talk to about: The impact of AI on security; User education and behavioural economics; and How ISO 27001 can help address such risks and concerns. For example, suppose a user has seen a list of passwords.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

“But, in this situation, unfortunately, no one contacted us to report that there was an attack from our addresses; if someone had contacted us, we would have definitely blocked the network data.” Constella finds that the password most frequently used by the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru ” DomainTools.com finds Ivan V.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records.