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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach.

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

The Last Watchdog

The hitch, of course, is that password-enabled account logins are too deeply engrained in legacy network infrastructure. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. million on average.

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