“If you’re not inconvenienced, then it’s not secure” – Ryan Collins What’s all this then? All of the major browsers have a built in password manager. The password manager allows you to store your usernames and passwords for sites you use. If you want to work cross platform then there are several password managers that…
Soon we’ll start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are appropriately configured. (You can check the status of your account in our Security Checkup). Using their mobile device to sign in gives people a safer and more secure authentication experience than passwords alone. Source: A simpler and safer future — without passwords When we…
What’s the harm? Your browsing habits can give up all sorts of information about you that you may have wanted to keep private, such as who you interact with, what are you interests, when and where you travel, and what you buy. Online companies can build a profile of you that is more accurate than…
Defense systems cannot provide 100% of the security organizations need as long as individual employees are making decisions about what to click on, who to trust and, at the leadership levels, where and how much to invest in security. This is especially true with the rise in remote work. Source: Security Culture: Putting Digital Literacy First in Your…
Unshorten.link is a website and Chrome extension that provides you protection against malicious shortened links by allowing you to unshorten urls. What is link shortening Link shortening is a way to take a very long URL and make it shorter so it’s easier to share. You’ve probably seen a link that starts with bit.ly or…
A corporate laptop being used in a coffee shop at a weekend was enough to allow a sophisticated cybercrime group to compromise an organisation’s entire infrastructure. The incident was detailed by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike as part of its Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook 2018 report and serves as a reminder that laptops and other devices that are secure while…
Before we can pick a path to follow into the future of authentication, we must first overcome some myths and misconceptions around passwords that are still widely held, even by security professionals. Source: It’s Time to Dispel These 6 Dangerous Password Myths I would add one more, forcing password resets on a regular basis does not…
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with…
Now that school is back in session, many high schoolers have new phones, new computers and new privileges for using their devices – and new responsibilities too. High schoolers today are more technology-savvy than average adults. While many people think that young people use their devices primarily for video games and social networking, the reality…