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Many popular websites still cling to password creation policies from 1985

12

Dec

2023

A significant number of popular websites still allow users to choose weak or even single-character passwords, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found. Websites’ lax creation policies for passwords The researchers used an automated account creation method to assess over 20,000 websites across the Tranco top 1M and evaluate the password creation policies users […]

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Aim for a modern data security approach

08

Dec

2023

Risk, compliance, governance, and security professionals are finally realizing the importance of subjecting sensitive workloads to robust data governance and protection the moment the data begins traversing the data pipeline. Many organizations no longer feel it’s adequate to secure data only once it “settles” in a cloud data warehouse, and know that they must begin […]

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Top mobile password managers could be exposing user details

07

Dec

2023

Some of the most popular mobile password managers on Android have a serious security flaw that could cause the worst problem possible for users – leaking their credentials. Known as “Autospill,” the vulnerability involves a bug in the autofill function on Android devices. It was discovered by researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology […]

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