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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

Krebs on Security

Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. Just attack and destroy.”

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The strengths and weaknesses of different VPN protocols

Security Affairs

The protocol relies on encryption, authentication and peer-to-peer protocol (PPP) negotiation. First released in 2001, the OpenVPN protocol has become one of the most popular and widely used protocols. Just like OpenVPN, SSTP supports AES 256-bit key encryption, and it uses 2048-bit SSL/TSL certificates for authentication.

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FFIEC Guidance on Authentication and Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems

Data Matters

On August 11, 2021, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)1 issued guidance establishing risk management principles and practices to support the authentication of users accessing a financial institution’s information systems and customers accessing a financial institution’s digital banking services (the Guidance).

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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades

eSecurity Planet

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). Context: Authentication vs. Authorization. Despite the recent prevalence of OAuth and OIDC for authentication and authorization, SAML 2.0

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How DMARC Can Protect Against Ransomware

eSecurity Planet

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance ( DMARC ) began gaining traction a few years ago as a way to validate the authenticity of emails. DMARC is based on email authentication, and much of the responsibility rests with senders and their DNS text resource records. How DMARC Works to Stop Ransomware.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. Some context about remote desktop controls: Back in 2001, when company networks were assembled around on-premises data centers, Microsoft began including RDC in all versions of Windows. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The first practical IBE scheme was given by Boneh and Franklin [7] in 2001 using bilinear pairing on elliptic curves. Since 2001, various extensions of normal IBE/IBS have been proposed: Identity-based signcrypt schemes. 8,9]) combines signature and encryption in a secure way, providing efficient joint authentication and encryption.