Five Password Tips For Small Business Security

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Five Password Tips For Small Business Security

Five Password Tips for Better Small Business Security Extra layers of protection – Umm, we all need it… Extra layers of authentication are essential to check the authenticity of password users. The sooner businesses large and small start to enforce these across the board – especially where use of bring your own device (BYOD) mobile […]

Maybe Your Smart Home Isn’t So Smart

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Smart Home Security Devices Fail Even Basic Password Practices: HP “Smart” Internet-connected home security systems are meant to protect consumers from intruders — but the top devices don’t require even the bare minimum for password protection that we expect for our email and other web services, according to a new study… Read more on NBCNews.com

Prevent your Mac Password From Being Bypassed

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Prevent your Mac password from being bypassed To check to see if you are using FileVault, open System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, and then click the FileVault tab. To enable FileVault, click the lock in the lower-left corner to unlock it and enter your admin name and password. Next … Read more on CNET

Don’t Leave The Front Door Unlocked – Nor The Backdoor

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Don’t Leave The Front Door Unlocked – 5 Password Security Tips For Businesses From Dropbox to Salesforce, cloud-based apps now house critical data for many UK businesses. But where cloud providers have developed their security to keep out more advanced threats, it's the users themselves who are still leaving the door open to … Read more […]

Anthem Hack: Could This Be the End of User Name and Password?

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This Could Be the End of User Name and Password Early investigations in the Anthem case suggest foreign hackers used the user name and password of a company executive to get inside Anthem's system and make off with personal data for 80 million people, including names, addresses and Social Security … Read more on TIME

Creating Family Passwords

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How do you convince friends and family to use password managers? Some days it seems like hackers are leaking passwords out from every corner of the internet. Password security is something that a lot of us need to take more seriously and there are a number of tools aim to make it much easier. Have […]

10 Million Passwords and Usernames

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A Security Researcher Just Dumped 10 Million Real Passwords Security researcher Mark Burnett released a torrent of 10 million passwords and usernames, a trove of comparatively anonymized data that he sourced from open websites from around the web. The passwords and usernames are older and most probably … Read more on TechCrunch

What The USS Enterprise Can Teach You About Password Safety

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Can You Trust Password Strength Meters? Here is the short answer… no. Let’s use the USS Enterprise as an example. Mark Stockley downloaded the top 10,000 passwords and found this example at the 158th most common password: ncc1701 it looks hard, but it is registration number of the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek series. […]

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