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4.5 million web servers have private keys that are publicly known!

14

Sep

2016

Late in 2015, we wrote about a survey by a European security consultancy called SEC Consult that looked at the cryptographic safety of the average web server. The results were worrying: 3,200,000 publicly-visible web servers were using private keys that weren’t actually private. In fact, they were already publicly known, and detectably so. Read More

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FTC seeks comment on consumer data disposal

13

Sep

2016

On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission requested public comment on the continuing relevance a decade-old data protection rule.

The Disposal Rule, part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), requires businesses to render consumer reports including credit and background checks unreadable before disposing of them.

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Attacker’s Playbook Top 5 Is High On Passwords, Low On Malware

19

Aug

2016

Playing whack-a-mole with software vulnerabilities should not be top of security pros’ priority list because exploiting software doesn’t even rank among the top five plays in the attacker’s playbook, according to a new report from Praetorian. Organizations would be far better served by improving credential management and network segmentation, according to researchers there. Over the […]

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