• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-24-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Serious Cloudflare bug revealed secret user data from major websites

For months, a bug in Cloudflare’s content optimization systems exposed sensitive information sent by users to websites that use the company’s content delivery network. The data included passwords, session cookies, authentication tokens and even private messages.Cloudflare acts as a reverse […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-24-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Three steps to make managing passwords easier

Passwords are a necessary inconvenience. Yes, they’re a pain to create and manage, but vital for keeping your accounts and devices secure. It might seem we’re approaching the death of the password with the rise of biometric authentication and other […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-24-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Three steps to make managing passwords easier

Passwords are a necessary inconvenience. Yes, they’re a pain to create and manage, but vital for keeping your accounts and devices secure. It might seem we’re approaching the death of the password with the rise of biometric authentication and other […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-24-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Stop using SHA1 encryption: It’s now completely unsafe, Google proves

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm's use for security-sensitive functions should be... Read More