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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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Best Facial Recognition Software for Enterprises In 2022

eSecurity Planet

With nothing more than an employee’s face needed to gain access, accounts can be set up and access levels changed relatively easily, without the hassle or insecurity of improperly saved passwords. Another concern is that of false negatives in identification, which can deny the right person access.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. "Have I been pwned?" " by @troyhunt is now up and running. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. Vamosi: Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you. It's natural.

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I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base

Troy Hunt

HIBP is a Community Project I've been giving a great deal of thought to how I want this project to evolve lately, especially in the wake of the M&A process that ended earlier this year right back where I'd started: with me being solely responsible for everything. Let me explain why and how.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? Of course it can!

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