Cryptocurrency—Bitcoin in particular—has seen a huge surge in popularity recently. This is partly due to a dramatic increase in the value of Bitcoin, which is currently trading at its highest ever rate of $8099.99 per coin. However, with all this […]
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The force may be strong with you on the fourth, but can you say the same about your passwords? The 4th of May is not only Star Wars day but it is the World Password Day as well. Rest assured,
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Having strong passwords has never been more important as headlines are dominated with reports of password leaks of major consumer accounts, such as LinkedIn and Yahoo. Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are a problem. Recently, Intel Security conducted a survey
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With every new data breach, the digital citizenry becomes more aware that online activities aren’t necessarily private or secure. Whether you’re an adult looking for undercover dalliances on Ashley Madison or a child playing games online with VTech digital learning
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If you’ve ever owned a safety deposit box at a bank—or seen one on TV or in a movie—then you know that it requires two keys to open it. If you recall the beginning of the movie War Games it
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Breaches big and small have been in the news, from small organizations losing banking files to global groups like Sony losing seemingly everything to hackers. But with the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that was revealed recently, with
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Technology is a double-edged sword; if it is not used properly it may cause problems. The lives of Starbucks lovers were made easier by a mobile app that allows payment for coffee or food at the Starbucks checkout counter from
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It has been proven repeatedly that passwords alone are a weak form of authentication. Two-factor authentication adds an element of complexity that makes it more secure, but also much less convenient. The solution may lie in risk-based authentication—an authentication mechanism
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Two-factor (or multi-factor authentication) is a very effective way of providing an additional layer of security for systems and data. It’s relatively trivial these days for attackers to compromise usernames and passwords, and two-factor authentication puts another line of defense
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There are a few common threads that seem to exist across the major data breaches of the last couple years. One of those is the fact that the attackers are often accessing the network and stealing gigabytes or terabytes of
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