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❓ What is multi-factor authentication and why does it work?
❓ Why is multi-factor authentication more safe?
❓ Is multi-factor authentication unhackable?
❓ What is the main disadvantage of MFA?
❓ What is safer than MFA?
We answered the most common questions about MFA the public asked in search engines last month.
How would you answer these questions differently than we did?
#MFA
#MultiFactorAuthentication
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/multi-fact...
❓ What is multi-factor authentication and why does it work?
❓ Why is multi-factor authentication more safe?
❓ Is multi-factor authentication unhackable?
❓ What is the main disadvantage of MFA?
❓ What is safer than MFA?
Don’t Let Hackers Turn Your Winter Wonderland Into A Winter Bummerland!
From our friends at CISA and the Better Business Bureau, here are some excellent tips to stay safer online this Holiday Season.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/11-holiday...
Don’t Let Hackers Turn Your Winter Wonderland Into A Winter Bummerland!
From our friends at CISA and the Better Business Bureau, here are some excellent tips to stay safer online this Holiday Season.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/11-holiday...
This one helps keep the Digital Kleptos™ away from your online accounts.
What can go wrong on the Internet, and what can you do about it?
A Threat Model — why should I care?
If you ask yourself 4 simple questions, your likelihood of success increases.
#ThreatModel
#Cybersecurity
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/this-unive...
This one helps keep the Digital Kleptos™ away from your online accounts.
Passwords alone won't protect your bank account, 401(k), or email. You need multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Which option is best?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/turning-on...
Passwords alone won't protect your bank account, 401(k), or email. You need multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Which option is best?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/turning-on...
Making up passwords on the fly simply won’t protect your online accounts like it did before. You need a Modern Password.
How do you make a Modern Password?
Use a high-quality Password Manager.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/why-use-a-...
Making up passwords on the fly simply won’t protect your online accounts like it did before. You need a Modern Password.
How do you make a Modern Password?
Use a high-quality Password Manager.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/why-use-a-...
☑️ Hamilton in theaters this month.
☑️ The tech of that era.
☑️ Why one cybersecurity researcher abandoned a successful body of work.
☑️ The "funeral" that came went, but we didn't get an invite.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/how-to-mak...
☑️ Hamilton in theaters this month.
☑️ The tech of that era.
☑️ Why one cybersecurity researcher abandoned a successful body of work.
☑️ The "funeral" that came went, but we didn't get an invite.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/how-to-mak...
Staying safe online doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. One by one, you can master The Basics of cybersecurity.
You have the power to keep yourself safer online!
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/5-simple-c...
Staying safe online doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. One by one, you can master The Basics of cybersecurity.
You have the power to keep yourself safer online!
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/5-simple-c...
Despite heroic efforts to save the business by laying off most of their 170 employees, and selling their headquarters, the damage was devastating.
How do we avoid joining the growing list of companies destroyed by hacking?
The Einhaus Group was once a familiar name in Germany.
Then 3 Digital Kleptos™ hacked their network, encrypting all their contracts, billing, and communication data, devastating the business.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/hackers-no...
Despite heroic efforts to save the business by laying off most of their 170 employees, and selling their headquarters, the damage was devastating.
How do we avoid joining the growing list of companies destroyed by hacking?
What would you use as a good introduction to the topic?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/the-woman-...
What would you use as a good introduction to the topic?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/the-woman-...
But what about the rest of us?
Many of us are living below the cybersecurity poverty line, and don’t even know it.
But you don't need to spend $300M to protect what you've earned.
An underground bunker twice the size of a typical U.S. home won't protect us from hacking or online fraud.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/mark-zucke...
But what about the rest of us?
Many of us are living below the cybersecurity poverty line, and don’t even know it.
This guidance comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), long considered the standard-bearer of all things cybersecurity.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/the-intern...
This guidance comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), long considered the standard-bearer of all things cybersecurity.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/the-intern...
First it helps to know how things go wrong, and what to do about it. You can benefit from a clearer understanding of what's happening and how to prevent it.
We almost never hear of a business completely destroyed by Digital Kleptos™.
But that's what happened when this business failed at The Basics of Business Cybersecurity.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/hackers-to...
First it helps to know how things go wrong, and what to do about it. You can benefit from a clearer understanding of what's happening and how to prevent it.
Why did this cyber story resonate so strongly with the general public?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/solving-th...
DFLEKT is a prototype — you can't buy it. But you can benefit by using this idea in every interaction with your coworkers or customers.
DFLEKT is a prototype — you can't buy it. But you can benefit by using this idea in every interaction with your coworkers or customers.
But using a high-quality consumer VPN is also a potent and effective protest, because you deny the ISP the very product they want to sell — your browser history.
In the U.S. your ISP has the right to sell your personal information, including your browser history, to any individual or corporation.
One effective solution is to use a high-quality Virtual Private Network (VPN).
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/fight-the-...
But using a high-quality consumer VPN is also a potent and effective protest, because you deny the ISP the very product they want to sell — your browser history.
He spent 24 years building his business. One bad password and a ransomware attack blew it to smithereens.
Fran watched helplessly as hackers encrypted all his files.
How could this happen?
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/one-bad-pa...
You don’t have to be “somebody special” to wind up on the receiving end of digital fraud.
Hackers ripped off Avery Hartmans for $10,000. Her credit card company didn't come to her rescue, and they didn’t even believe the charges were fraudulent.
www.digitalkleptos.com/p/psycho-bun...
You don’t have to be “somebody special” to wind up on the receiving end of digital fraud.
☑️ Up-to-date information
☑️ Useful, actionable advice, and
☑️ Thoughtful cybersecurity analysis — sometimes from a very different point of view.
www.DigitalKleptos.com
☑️ Up-to-date information
☑️ Useful, actionable advice, and
☑️ Thoughtful cybersecurity analysis — sometimes from a very different point of view.
www.DigitalKleptos.com
Have you lost trust in your internet service provider (ISP) to keep your personal information private?
Using a high-quality VPN is a potent and effective protest.
“NO!” is a complete sentence.
loistavainfosecurity.com/vpn-use-as-a...
Have you lost trust in your internet service provider (ISP) to keep your personal information private?
Using a high-quality VPN is a potent and effective protest.
“NO!” is a complete sentence.
loistavainfosecurity.com/vpn-use-as-a...
Australia declared war on an unlikely enemy: emus. The flightless birds were causing havoc in Western Australia, destroying crops and fences, and the government decided "enough."
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/the-great-emu-war-of-1932-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/
Australia declared war on an unlikely enemy: emus. The flightless birds were causing havoc in Western Australia, destroying crops and fences, and the government decided "enough."
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/the-great-emu-war-of-1932-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/
☑️ Almost 40% of Americans Use Embarrassing Passwords
☑️ What insights do you find when you ask 1,030 Americans about their password use?
How many people are embarrassed to say their password out loud?
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/naughty-or-nice/
☑️ Almost 40% of Americans Use Embarrassing Passwords
☑️ What insights do you find when you ask 1,030 Americans about their password use?
How many people are embarrassed to say their password out loud?
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/naughty-or-nice/
Fun, Kinetic, Colorful: a matching set of 14 large dice. When rolled together, they create modern passwords composed of uppercase letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/castalot-dice/
Fun, Kinetic, Colorful: a matching set of 14 large dice. When rolled together, they create modern passwords composed of uppercase letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/castalot-dice/
Learn the history of DiceWare, and see an updated concept for this rock-solid technology used to create passphrases.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/ghentware/
Learn the history of DiceWare, and see an updated concept for this rock-solid technology used to create passphrases.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/ghentware/
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
Blogpost link: https://loistavainfosecurity.com/brilliant/
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
Blogpost link: https://loistavainfosecurity.com/brilliant/
Here's guidance on cybersecurity best practices that anyone – regardless of experience – can implement to make their online life safer and more secure.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/about-us/information-security-for-the-masses/
Here's guidance on cybersecurity best practices that anyone – regardless of experience – can implement to make their online life safer and more secure.
https://loistavainfosecurity.com/about-us/information-security-for-the-masses/