Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

How to Help Protect Yourself from a Data Breach While the threat to your personal security can be extremely unsettling, regular privacy scans, strong passwords and authentication, updated software, and being mindful as to what you share online, are major preventative measures you can practice daily to significantly help mitigate this risk.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

More Americans than ever are working remotely and seeking out entertainment online, and this increase of internet activity has fueled a dramatic spike in cybercrime. Two-factor authentication may seem technically complicated, but “2FA” is a security measure you already know. Related: Training human sensors.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

As I mentioned earlier, they partnered with HIBP to help drive people interested in personal security towards better personal security practices and obviously there's some neat integration with the data in HIBP too (there's also a dedicated page explaining why I chose them ). What can you do if you were in the data?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Internet communications platforms -- such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube -- are crucial in today's society. Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security. This is a national-security risk as well as a personal-security risk.

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