Duo's Security Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Do you remember all the passwords to your various accounts and profiles? How many times have you forgotten your login details, attempted to reset your password, and faced the painful reminder, ‘your new password cannot be the same as previous’?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

That blog post had been in the works for many months before this partnership was conceived of, but I ultimately decided to get it out before this announcement to help explain my thinking. Why It Makes Sense to Partner with a Password Manager Now. I spent a few hours manually updating all passwords to all sites.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

When you access the internet through a VPN, your data is encrypted and routed through a secure tunnel. VPNs are especially important if you use public Wi-Fi, as these networks are often unsecured and easy for hackers to exploit. As with any software, it is vitally important to update your VPN with any new patches that become available.

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2023

Active-duty service members are three times as likely to report misuse of a debit card or other electronic methods to withdraw money from their accounts. Active-duty service members are 76% more likely than civilians to report misuse of an existing account, like a bank account or credit card.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog, see the depth of Duo integrations with various AWS applications and services, and learn how you can better equip your organization with security that frustrates the attackers and not the users. Additionally, it imposes a substantial workload on IT administrators responsible for user account management.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Be Mindful of Your Online Accounts Your online accounts are key access points to your digital identity. Begin by cleaning up old accounts. Close or delete outdated email addresses, social media accounts, and online services you no longer use. Consider employing a password manager to organize and track them securely.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you reuse passwords, you only need one of your cloud services to be breached—once criminals have stolen your credentials through one service, they potentially have access to every account that shares those same credentials, including banking platforms, email and other services where sensitive data is stored. One password….

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A few people took some of the points I made in those posts as being contentious, although on reflection I suspect it was more a case of lamenting that we shouldn't be in a position where we're still dependent on passwords and people needing to understand good password management practices in order for them to work properly.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That includes setting up a VPN through which remote employees can access work assets. One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. Of course, passwords don’t provide absolute protection for business accounts.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

In this blog, we cover the top-seven data security practices every workplace should implement to help protect valuable information and more. You should never use the same password, or variations of the same password, across multiple accounts. Why is Data Security Important in the Workplace?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. 25, 2019, when security firm CrowdStrike published a blog post listing virtually every Internet address known to be (ab)used by the espionage campaign to date. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in

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