The past, present and future of the password
Passwords have been around in one form or another for a considerable amount of time. Using a form of challenge and response has been a way of verifying an individual far before computers even...
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Amazon third-party sellers targeted by attacks
Towards the start of April 2017 it came to light that hackers were targeting third-party sellers on Amazon.com. Using stolen credentials the hackers were posting fake deals on the site. Andy Heather, Vice President and...
Top 8 Security Tips you can implement right now
People use the internet each and every day and yet security and data breaches happen far to regularly. Today Jordan Williams talks about the top 8 security tips you can implement right now to...
Twitter passwords obtained by Russian hacker
In light of the news that the Russian seller, who goes by the name of Tessa88, claimed in an encrypted chat to have obtained Twitter’s database. This includes email addresses, usernames and plain-text passwords. Tod...
Nationwide plan to roll out behavioral bio-metrics
In light of the announcement from Nationwide that they plan to roll-out behavioural biometrics Barry Scott, CTO of EMEA at Centrify, has commented: “As Nationwide announce plans to roll-out behavioural biometrics as an additional security layer for its banking app,...
Who do you trust with your password?
Recently Centrify polled IT professionals at Cloud Expo Europe, London, 13 April 2016. The poll uncovered that over half of spouses share passwords but friends and children are trusted the least. They commented: Bracknell,...
Talktalk using voice recognition over passwords
As Talktalk have announced that they will be using voice recognition in place of passwords as a result of the data breach last year Barry Scott, CTO EMEA at Centrify, has commented: “Passwords are no...
How strong is your password? | Analyzing common passwords
Recently a range of students from across the UK were asked for an example of a strong password they could use on a website. This password would have to thwart brute force and similar...
Notes on breach notification handling – 000Webhost breach
Recently following the news on the 000Webhost breach Tod Beardsley, security engineering manager at Rapid7, has expressed his points of view on companies and their notification handling policies. He noted: “The breach story involving the 13.5 million...
Comments on Mumsnet attacks
Recently Barry Scott, CTO EMEA of Centrify, has made several statements on the recent attacks on Mumsnet. He stated: “It’s both interesting, and alarming, that there’s physical ‘attacks’ going on with swatting, rather than ‘just’ a cyber...
