The list of this year’s 25 “worst” passwords says a lot about us. “Starwars” (No. 16) reflects a resurgent force in popular culture. “Whatever” (No. 23) and “letmein” (No. 7) seem to speak to an exasperation with online security itself. And “password” (No. 2) speaks to our collective lack of creativity. They are among the…
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A method for scrambling data to protect it from the super powerful computers of the future has received a speed boost from a team of researchers from Duke and Ohio State universities and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The method uses quantum key distribution to guard data from prying eyes, wrote Nurul T. Islam, Charles…
Cyberattacks against healthcare organizations are evolving in many ways, including new schemes to steal credentials as well as assaults by low-skilled hackers using ransomware-as-a-service products, says Eric Rydberg of Sophos. See Also: Addressing the Identity Risk Factor in the Age of ‘Need It Now’ In a video interview at Information Security Media Group’s recent Healthcare…