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Report Details Cyber Threats to Canada, Canadians in 2023-24

SecureWorld News

With machine learning becoming the norm in consumer service and data analytics, cryptocurrencies and decentralized financing are prime targets for cyber threat actors. It's only going to get worse over the next two years. New threats/opportunities from disruptive technologies.

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IDIQ Names Industry Veteran Damian Bushnell Chief Product Officer

Identity IQ

Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. For more than two decades, Bushnell has been a technology and product leader in the consumer credit and identity theft protection industry.

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

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed.

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

The Last Watchdog

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. 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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IDIQ Names Industry Veteran Damian Bushnell Chief Product Officer

Identity IQ

Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. For more than two decades, Bushnell has been a technology and product leader in the consumer credit and identity theft protection industry.

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Comcast Launches New Video Doorbell for Xfinity Home Customers

CyberSecurity Insiders

Powered by Xfinity Internet, the Xfinity Video Doorbell seamlessly integrates into new and existing Xfinity Home systems and allows customers to easily keep an eye on their front door from anywhere.

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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 Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack. “Someone was trying to phish employee credentials, and they were good at it,” Wired reported.