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Information Stealing Malware on the Rise, Uptycs Study Shows

SecureWorld News

According to the new Uptycs whitepaper, Detecting the Silent Threat: 'Stealers are Organization Killers' (gated link), a variety of new info stealers have emerged this year, preying on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. This demonstrates a focus on collecting data from multi-factor authentication tools.

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Regulatory Compliance and Red Hat Security

Linux Academy

Virtually every industry, from healthcare to banking and everything in between, has rules for how businesses handle data. The Linux Audit system is a great solution. Finally, use the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) to set password requirements and lock out users with too many failed logins. Disk Encryption.

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What is Flipper Zero: A comprehensive guide

Dataconomy

Flipper Zero is designed with a variety of antennas that enable it to capture, store, replicate, and imitate wireless signals, interacting with a multitude of signal types: NFC: Commonly found in bank cards and building access cards. 125kHz RFID: Utilized in older proximity cards and animal microchips.

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Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp

The Verge

Like changing banks, really. It will insist that you use two-factor authentication, for example — and via QR code, too; none of that insecure SMS business. Basecamp is just 56 people, and in two years, they spun up an email platform and built six native clients — iOS, Android, web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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Technology Short Take 125

Scott Lowe

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And then there are, for example, dedicated Linux distributions which server like on collections of tools ready to be used.