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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Prepare a quantum-safe architecture now. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries.

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Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Impluse SafeConnect offers automatic device discovery and can support anywhere from 250 to 25,000 endpoints and up with its scalable appliance architecture. It offers a rule-based architecture to automate access based on use cases. Aruba ClearPass may also be known as Avenda eTIPS after HPE acquired Avenda and its NAC solution in 2011.

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DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique

Security Affairs

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. “ DePriMon is an unusually advanced downloader whose developers have put extra effort into setting up the architecture and crafting the critical components,” ESET concludes.

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Making Chrome more secure by bringing Key Pinning to Android

Google Security

Chrome invests in an ever-stronger multi-process architecture built on sandboxing and site isolation to help defend against memory safety problems. These services both use asymmetric cryptography to authenticate their data, and the public key used to verify data sent by these services is shipped in Chrome.

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How the Chrome Root Program Keeps Users Safe

Google Security

Chrome Root Program: TL;DR Chrome uses digital certificates (often referred to as “certificates,” “HTTPS certificates,” or “server authentication certificates”) to ensure the connections it makes for its users are secure and private. For example, in 2011 a compromised CA led to a large-scale attack on web users in Iran.

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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). With MFA, your IT administrators can configure an extra layer of authentication that combines biometric technology with contextual intelligence. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking. LastPass pricing.

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Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

The San Francisco-based Fastly was started in 2011 and specializes in extending cloud infrastructures to the network edge. Web application firewalls or WAFs are essential components to the security of organization networks and service-oriented architecture. Fastly-Signal Sciences NGWAF. Get an in-depth look at SonicWall NS a.