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The revelation that 533 million previously stolen Facebook account records have been made public on a darknet forum should inspire organizations to take aggressive action to further protect customer data security, some security experts say.
Although the data posted on the forum is several years old, it still poses risks because so much of it, including telephone numbers, is likely still valid, says Lorrie Cranor, director of the Cylab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. This breach did not leak passwords or financial account information, but it leaked information that can certainly be of use to identity thieves and make it easier for them to impersonate people and compromise their accounts, Cranor says. Organizations should check their password reset processes and make sure that the breached
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We humans struggle with this work and often succumb by abandoning the basic hygiene of using a different password at every site. Password reuse turns a data breach at one site into an opportunity for attackers to try your exposed password at others.
“I don’t know anyone who thinks they can keep complex and different passwords memorized,” emailed Lorrie Cranor, director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. “If you adopt a password manager, you don’t have to think about coming up with unique and strong passwords anymore and you don’t have to figure out how you are going to remember them.”
Get Permission The Biden administration is reviewing former President Donald Trump s policies addressing potential national security and cybersecurity concerns about certain Chinese-owned companies as it looks to forge new plans for dealing with a wide range of issues related to China.
In the last four years, the Trump administration viewed certain Chinese companies - especially telecommunication technology companies, such as Huawei, and those offering social media apps, such as TikTok - as threats to U.S. national security because they could collect large amounts of data on American citizens and potentially share it with the Chinese government.
In the last week, the Biden administration has asked a federal court to delay a hearing on whether TikTok should be banned in the U.S. as the White House studies Trump s previous executive orders to reassess the policy. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal and South China Morning Post report that ByteDance, parent company of TikTok, is she
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