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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CREDENTIALS ARE FOUND ON THE DARK WEB

Sites are hacked every day.

  •   There is an attack every 39 seconds (Security Magazine)
  • Hackers steal 75 records every second (Breach Level Index)
  • More than 23 million people use the password ‘123456’ (National Cyber Security Centre)
  • Traditional firewall and antivirus security is irrelevant and obsolete (Thycotic.com)
  • Hackers create 300,000 new pieces of malware daily (McAfee)
  • On average 30,000 new websites are hacked every day (Forbes)
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The Changing Landscape of Password Management

There have been a lot of interesting developments in Password Management since NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology (a division of US Dept. of Commerce), revised the 14-year-old guidelines last November with final updates issued in June 2017.  The now-retired 72-year-old author of the original 2003 NIST, Bill Burr, was quoted  in The Wall Street Journal as saying “Much of what I did I now regret.”  Great Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre has also chimed in with similar updated recommendations on Password Security.

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