The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With so much critical data now stored in the cloud, how can people protect their accounts? After breaking a password, cybercriminals don’t only access that single account. Silo your risk by generating a unique password for each of your online accounts. 3) Activate 2FA on all accounts.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To dig into some of these successes, we recently sat down with members of the Advantasure development team to discuss how our AppSec solutions and methodologies have helped them improve their development processes, reduce risk, and foster a more collaborative environment. ve had experiences where security runs the risk of being overlooked ???

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Veracode Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To dig into some of these successes, we recently sat down with members of the Advantasure development team to discuss how our AppSec solutions and methodologies have helped them improve their development processes, reduce risk, and foster a more collaborative environment. ve had experiences where security runs the risk of being overlooked ???

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

That link explains it in more detail but in short, it poses too big a risk for individuals, too big a risk for me personally and frankly, can't be done without taking the sorts of shortcuts that nobody should be taking with passwords in the first place! But there is another way and that's by using Pwned Passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

Run the industry’s fastest scans to discover all risks. • with TruRisk is an enterprise-grade cyber risk management solution. Powered by the Qualys Cloud Platform, the vulnerability management tool enables you to prioritize assets, groups of assets, and vulnerabilities based on business risk. Qualys VMDR 2.0 Key Differentiators.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

These attacks typically take data from multiple breaches then combine them into a single unified list so that they can be used in account takeover attempts on other services. No, I've written about why not and it still poses an unacceptable risk to both individuals in the breach and myself. Can I provide the password used?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

We don’t all face the same risks, and we don’t all need to take the same precautions as a result. My personal security concerns are based around what’s important to me, what I want to secure, which bits I’m not bothered about, and what is absolutely mission critical at all costs. It’s not in your threat model.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. The hacker used that access to send tweets from a variety of popular and trusted accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, as part of a mundane scam -- stealing bitcoin -- but it's easy to envision more nefarious scenarios. There is no accountability.

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