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RSAC Fireside Chat: A breakthrough in securing cloud collaboration — decentralized key storage

The Last Watchdog

Back in 2002, when I was a reporter at USA Today , I had to reach for a keychain fob to retrieve a single-use passcode to connect remotely to the paper’s publishing system. This iteration of my old-school keychain fob thus eliminates the need for usernames and passwords while much more robustly protecting sensitive data, Nagarjuna asserts.

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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

Krebs on Security

VPNs work by creating a virtual network interface that serves as an encrypted tunnel for communications. Therefore, for the routes we push, it is never encrypted by the VPN’s virtual interface but instead transmitted by the network interface that is talking to the DHCP server.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

LiveAuctioneers is one of the world’s largest art, antiques & collectibles online marketplace that was founded in 2002. ” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. million users.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

TRIA was passed in 2002 to provide financial assistance to the insurers who were reeling from covering the costs of the Sept. These are the types of controls many are familiar with: complicated passwords, app-based two-factor authentication, antivirus programs, and warning labels on emails. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Exploiting Kerberos for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation

NopSec

The most common (also deprecated) method of authentication is NTLM, which is a challenge/response protocol that authenticates a user without the user sending their password across the network. The challenge is then encrypted by a hash of the user’s password, and sent to the server. Don’t be that guy!!

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

2002 – 2006: Origins of the Tor Project After onion routing was patented, additional computer scientists joined the original development team in 2002 and created the biggest project for onion routing yet: The Onion Routing Project, now commonly known as the Tor Project. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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