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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. If you fear this irrational Internet in security is not the only unchecked technological tyranny, you are correct.

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The Challenges Facing the Passwordless Future

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Microsoft is already providing passwordless features to Azure Active Directory, and for Google, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become mandatory. The Challenges of New Authentication Technologies.

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Properly Securing Commonly Used Remote Access Technologies (RDP/RDG and VPN)

Cytelligence

In many cases, this resulted in organizations either deploying new technologies, boosting the capabilities of existing solutions or installing secondary and tertiary solutions in case the primary access method suffered a failure of some kind. . Is RDG the solution? . RDG is no different.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

A chief concern among the panoply of patches is a trio of vulnerabilities in the Windows file-sharing technology (a.k.a. One mitigating factor with this flaw is that an attacker would need to be already authenticated on the network to exploit it, according to security experts at Tenable.

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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: The Tipping Point in Passwordless Adoption

Duo's Security Blog

How passwordless solves for password problems Chrysta: What does passwordless mean, and how does that differ from traditional password-based authentication? Christi: Passwordless authentication specifically is any primary factor authentication that is not requiring the user to remember a passphrase or password.

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Financial Supervision in a Digital World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Consumers are loving it, as long as they feel like they can trust the technology. But new technologies give us more power than ever to crunch data. We also use strong user authentication, based on risk. After the financial crisis in 2008, it became responsible for most of the supervision in the European banking system.

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