SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

According to a 2020 case study on one of the firms, security researchers identified more than 1,500 email addresses and 6,000 passwords exposed in more than 80 data breaches. Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.".

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Banking Financial Case Study Systems Administration 55

Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This question of power and authority is vital in identity systems. We can ask "what do we give up and to whom in a given identity system?" I argued that the architecture of SSI, its structure, made those relationships more authentic. Figure 1: Binding of controller, authentication factors, and identifiers in identity systems.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

The new revelations became known to the rest of us this week as Wyden, who focuses on security and privacy issues, released a previously unseen cybersecurity report from within the Central Intelligence Agency. must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change.".

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Authentication System Security Report 65

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The study spanned 75 unique organizations and only focused on security weaknesses that were used to obtain a full network compromise. When this is done, the credentials of a user accessing network resources can be instead transmitted to the attacker’s system. In other words, the enemy is right there in the mirror!

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IBM Operating Systems Network Systems Administration 70

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

We know that training teams on specific software can be costly and that scenarios can be difficult to create and a challenge to secure via VPN or port 22 access. Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer. Build a Custom Network in Google Cloud Shell. AWS Security Essentials – Network Segmentation Lab.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. The Hackers claimed they were responding to a reported problem the employee was having with Twitter’s Virtual Private Network (“VPN”). It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing.

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Media Social Engineering Information Security 93

Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

An identity metasystem can remove the friction, decrease cognitive overload, and make online interactions more private and secure. Kim follows this description of the metasystem with seven laws of identity that are designed to ensure that the metasystem is sufficiently respectful of autonomy, privacy, and security.

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Internet Banking System Architecture 102

Phil Windley

MAY 18, 2021

And yet those systems are not ours, but rather belong to the companies that provide them. I call these systems "administrative" because they are built to administer our experience in a particular domain for the administrator's specific purposes. Not altogether unpleasant, but a far cry from authentic.

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