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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. And then there's the account holder, the one who chose the password. Without doubt, blame lies with them.

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Symphony Technology to acquire Cybersecurity Firm McAfee for $4 billion

CyberSecurity Insiders

American Cybersecurity firm McAfee has made it official that it is going to sell its enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group (STG) for all cash $4bn. Note- In March 2021, John McAfee, who founded the security business in 1987 and resigned the company in 1994 was in news for all wrong reasons.

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Apple Guidance on Intimate Partner Surveillance

Adam Shostack

The document includes checklists, which are available separately: If you want to see if anyone else has access to your device or accounts. Defending against attackers who are both authorized and “interface-bound” is a weird problem for information security, as traditionally defined.

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IDIQ Announces IdentityIQ App with Real-Time Alerts for Security at Your Fingertips

Identity IQ

Consumers receive alerts for changes to their credit reports, such as application alerts, and opening and closing of credit accounts in their name as well as significant credit score changes. Consumers also receive alerts for lost or stolen credit cards, criminal record notifications and when their information is found on the dark web.

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Accelerate Digital Investments in Retail with Scalable Digital Identity

Security Boulevard

Composable ecommerce, a term coined by Gartner, refers to a modular approach comprising technology building blocks from various vendors, which provides businesses with the ability to make shifts in their architecture to enable agility. Let's find out how. The Way Forward: Identity-Enabled Headless Ecommerce.

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PCI v4 is coming. Are you ready?

Pen Test Partners

businesses gain the flexibility to define and deploy personalized security measures aligned with their specific cardholder data environment (CDE) setup. The innovative Customised Approach empowers well-established organisations to intricately specify their existing security controls to fulfil the objectives for each requirement.

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NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20 Million SIM Swap Theft

Krebs on Security

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. But these security features can be bypassed by incompetent or corrupt mobile store employees.