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This Open-Source Security Key Helps You Ditch Software Authenticators

Gizmodo

Accidentally deleting your Google Authenticator app is a nightmare. The app, which generates one-time codes for many websites, is usually your key to many major email services, including Gmail, domain name services like Namecheap, and even banking services. If you forget to move these codes over to a new phone when… Read more.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

The movement is creating a massive cascade of venture capital dollars, and now Seattle-based Evernym — an 8-year-old startup with roots in Salt Lake City — is taking advantage of the wave of activity by selling to cybersecurity and antivirus software company Avast. Evernym describes itself as a leader in “self-sovereign identity.”

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The Roles of SAST and DAST and Fuzzing in Application Security

ForAllSecure

From banking to shopping, nearly all daily tasks these days can be completed on a computer or smartphone. SAST tools can be used to identify security vulnerabilities in the source code itself. Similarly, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) looks at open source code. It does not always require access to source code.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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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. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

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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. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

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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. I mean, it was open source, right? What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.