IT Security Guru

JANUARY 22, 2024

Financial and Banking Security: Password managers have numerous record types available for users, including for sensitive financial and banking information. Users can save credit card details that can be easily filled on retail websites, as well as bank information such as account and routing numbers.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. But phishing persistently remains a threat (as shown by a recent phishing attack on the U.S.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today, many people when they sign up for a new account for an internet-based service are asked to pick a password to help secure their account from unauthorized access. For instance, in securing your high risk accounts like banking or personal finance accounts, healthcare accounts, government services accounts (DMV, IRS, etc.),

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Spinone

MARCH 25, 2019

There are quite a few things that can be done to greatly improve the security of Google Drive, in general, using both built-in technologies provided by Google as well as practical steps. This splitting up of the required components of authentication helps to bolster the security of your Google account.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If someone obtains the thing that you know then it's (probably) game over and they have access to your account. Indeed, when you store your TOTP secret in the same place that you keep your password for a site, you do not have second factor security. It's most damaging when account recovery can be facilitated via SMS alone (i.e.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Account security is a big thing, like the poll worker has one set of credentials on a check in device where the district admin or a technician account, there's different accounts for different types of people that may need to be part of that whole process.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Account security is a big thing, like the poll worker has one set of credentials on a check in device where the district admin or a technician account, there's different accounts for different types of people that may need to be part of that whole process.

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