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North Dakota Approves K-12 Cybersecurity Education Bill

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity education is a central component of landmark House Bill 1398 , signed into law by Governor Doug Burnum and expected to garner final approval July 1, 2024. Burnum said, while addressing the cybersecurity education legislation at the bill signing ceremony. North Dakota is the first state in the U.S.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why automating distribution of strong passwords to employees is wise to do

The Last Watchdog

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Yet most people don’t know how to use them properly.

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Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection

The Hacker News

The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks. But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to mitigate them - through email protection, firewall rules and employee education - phishing attacks are still a very risky attack vector.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 1: Education

Troy Hunt

Let's get started with one I raised multiple times whilst sitting in front of Congress - education. Security tends to be viewed as a discrete discipline within information technology as opposed to just natively bake into everything. Oh - and it uses a password of 12345678. Education is the Best ROI on Security Spend.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Awareness events foster to shape human attitude, enhance a positive culture against cyber threats, and educate businesses and people about protective measures they can take to secure their sensitive personal data: Enable MFA.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: The Problem with Passwords

Duo's Security Blog

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Passwords rely on something that the user knows, and that worked really well in a physical space.

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Warning issued about Vice Society ransomware targeting the education sector

Malwarebytes

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) after observing Vice Society threat actors disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks.