We have covered this issue before, but it bears repeating. The new NIST Digital Identity Guidelines are out, and they have thrown out some old password chestnuts because they did not work, or did not work as intended.
Below are the significant changes to password policy.
See the post at The Ringer for 11-25 and four honorable mentions.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Veteran’s day is a remembrance of all U.S. military veterans – past and present. It is celebrated every November 11th, and has been a federal holiday since 1926.
10/31/2017 08:14 AM EDT Original release date: October 31, 2017
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Websites are a popular target for cyber-criminals, because they offer a platform for malicious activity. A hijacked website can be used for hosting malware downloads or phishing landing pages. Personal information stored in a website database about site users, including user names and passwords and other personal information can be extracted, decrypted, and sold on the Dark Web.
I have devoted many articles to properly securing WordPress websites. Now there is ...
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If you own a small business and this stuff isn’t keeping you awake, it should be. Thanks to CIT’s new Director of Cybersecurity, Jake DeWoskin, for the list of issues that follows.
Not everyone can hire a cyber security expert. Globally, 70% of employers plan to increase the size of their cybersecurity staff this year. Not only is ...
Continue Reading →People often ask me if it is dangerous to simply open an email, if it is possible to get a malware inflection just by reading an email. My answer has been a qualified “not at this time.” Unfortunately, this is no longer true. It is possible to get a malware installation from the new DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) exploits reveal by Sophos Labs on October 13 2017. This can be accomplished without an attachment or link if the email is ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.10/24/2017 07:32 AM EDT Original release date: October 24, 2017
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The month’s themes educate students and professionals about cybersecurity attack methods, best practices, and preventive measures ...
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Happy Halloween! Nothing like a scary story to end the holiday. The scary story in cybersecurity is that Kaspersky anti-malware and security products are in league with the Putin government and the FSB in Russia. The FBI is advising government agencies to drop Kaspersky and find a new endpoint security solution.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated through a holding company in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky was founded ...
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Over the last four posts, we have focused on the US-CERT alert, but cybersecurity firm Symantec has actually been working this case since 2011. Their report on Dragonfly can be found on their website. While they are cautous when providing attribution, reading between the lines indicates that Dragonfly is probably a Russian based group, possibly working on ...
