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MY TAKE: How consumer-grade VPNs are enabling individuals to do DIY security

The Last Watchdog

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. I’ve since discovered that there’s a heck of a lot going on in the B2C VPN space. The leading B2C VPNs all recognize this and have begun promoting the use of personal VPNs as, essentially, a DIY security tool.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

For this study, a data breach was defined as an intruder copying or leaking user data such as names, surnames, email addresses, passwords, etc. More than two thirds of American accounts are leaked with the password, putting breached users in danger of account takeover. That’s for the B2C users. Essential security tool.

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ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

SecureList

Don’t get upset and ask again in 5 minutes (the software is #### normalized) Format: Advertisement mail:password Hackers give buyers instructions on using a compromised account: for example, they recommend not tampering with its owners’ chats and deleting their own messages immediately after each session with the chatbot.