Two Factor Authentication

Joanne Hogue, a US-based public relations manager, was working in the UK when she realized her Facebook account had been hacked. The first sign was an email from Facebook warning them of an attempt to connect from New Jersey to the United States. A few seconds later, Hogue’s password was …

Pipeline operators need to improve their cybersecurity protocols to avoid breaches like the one that shut down the Colonial Pipeline refined products in May, an expert panel agreed on Wednesday. Electronic bulletin boards (EBBs) are particularly vulnerable to hacks, said panelists attending the LDC Gas Forums Midcontinent conference virtually in …

Microsoft announced this week that the company is moving away from passwords. This decision may seem sudden, but I participated in a study conducted by IBM in the 1980s where it was determined that passwords were a major security exposure and should be eliminated. And here we are almost four …

Earlier this week, the U.S. FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint advisory warning the public of the suspected active exploitation of a critical vulnerability found in a popular password management solution called Zoho. Zoho’s ManageEngine AdSelfService Plus, a tool that helps users create strong passwords …

Whether it’s signing into a social media account, mobile banking, or our workplace, all of our online accounts require a username and password. And creating a new, different password for each account proves to be a challenge – one reason most of us end up reusing passwords across multiple accounts. …

(MENAFN – NewsBytes) Passwords are the weakest link in the implementation of a security system, often being the easiest to crack. Now Microsoft has decided to completely remove passwords. The company is deploying a solution that will remove passwords from Microsoft accounts. The functionality has already been deployed internally in …

Viasat announced a next-generation encryption storage solution, Data-at-Rest Cryptography SSD (DARC-SSD), as the latest addition to Viasat’s hardware encryption family, providing secure data protection to agencies government and defense organizations around the world. Data at rest technology protects against theft, loss or attack of a device, allowing data to be …

When it comes to cell phone hacking, some experts say the best way to prevent it is simple. A recent story from AP says that Senator Angus King du Maine, who is a member of the Special Senate Committee on Intelligence and co-chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, received the …

Bitfinex, a digital currency exchange platform that is under investigation by the US Department of Justice for allegedly pursuing criminal prosecutions, including large-scale money laundering, announced that it would support U2F Security Keys, which is described as an open authentication standard. U2F security keys will be used on Bitfinex payment, …

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