The Novartis-owned company said its drug, Hyrimoz, will be priced at a 5% discount off Humira’s current list price of $6,922 per month, but that it was also offering an unbranded version of Humira at an 81% discount. Healthcare experts have said that drugmakers will probably launch their Humira biosimilars with small discounts to appeal to pharmacy benefit managers, which take some of their fees as a percentage of the discounts they negotiate on behalf of their customers – large employers and health insurance plans.
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If you still want to use TikTok, you can without handing over all your information to communist China.
Why not just use the app?
Plain and simple, TikTok is a national security threat. The Chinese-owned social media platform’s parent company ByteDance is based in Beijing and is required by Chinese law to give the government access to collected data.
TikTok collects data that includes search and browsing history, facial ID, voice prints, texts, location, and photos.
Though government agencies and even the entire state of Montana have banned the social media app, it’s still incredibly popular – used by about two-thirds of teens in the U.S.
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What are your options?
Browsing TikTok on the web won’t cut it. There’s still a significant amount of tracking.
Your best buy is buying a low-cost smartphone, sometimes called a burner phone. You don’t need anything fancy since this is just for social media. A super basic cheap Android phone works just fine.
Turn on the phone and set it up, but here’s the trick: Don’t link it to any of your primary accounts.
Start fresh
Do not log into your Google account, Apple ID, company email, personal email, or anything else. Certainly, don’t give it access to any sensitive personal or financial information.
Create a new email account just for this phone – and your TikTok account. That way, even if TikTok (or any other app) collects data from your device, it won’t be tied to your actual personal information.
Of course, this phone still has a connection to you. Be careful what you share with the app or in your posts.
You can connect the burner phone to your home’s Wi-Fi, so you don’t need to purchase a cellular data plan. But there’s one more important thing you need to do.
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That’s a huge undertaking for most people, but digital security experts say it’s a recommendation worth following for the millions of Louisianans whose personal information, including social security number and drivers license data, is exposed on the internet.
Why should you change your passwords?
The personal information exposed in the OMV hack has the potential to arm someone with everything they need to access an online account except for the password, said Abe Baggili, an LSU professor and cybersecurity expert.
Many online services ask users to fill out security questions about personal details as a way to confirm someone’s identity during a password reset. The OMV hack exposed enough information that a hacker could now answer those questions or figure out the answers, Baggili said.
A hacker with access to the leaked personal information could also now craft an extremely sophisticated phishing email in an attempt to steal usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other data, Baggili said.
“You fall victim to this because it looks super legitimate, it looks like it’s coming from the right place and it looks like they have enough information about you to make it believable that they know who you are,” Baggili said.
How should you change your passwords?
The solution is fairly simple and is something people should probably already be doing, Baggili said.
“We live in an age where at this point and time a password manager is essential,” Baggili said.
Password managers secure all your passwords in one place, can alert you if a password has been leaked anywhere online and can allow you to quickly and easily change passwords to be more secure. Many internet browsers offer password managers built in to the browser, but a dedicated, seperate password manager are considered more secure.
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Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ones. The top five are: “password,” “123456,” “123456789,” “guest” and “qwerty.”
Needless to say, these are weak passwords—but what makes a good one? Most people know a few rules of thumb: it should be as long as possible, contain special characters and not be a simple word. You should also change it regularly, choose a different password for each user account and never write it down. Meeting all these requirements at the same time seems almost impossible. And once you have found a good password, a website may not accept it: either it is too short, contains an illegal character—or is somehow too long. PayPal, for example, does not allow passwords longer than 20 characters. These restrictions make password selection extremely frustrating for most users.
For their secure password requirements, many Internet service providers rely on 2003 guidelines published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology that recommend passwords with as large a mix of special characters, uppercase letters and lowercase letters as possible. Bill Burr, a former NIST employee, created these guidelines but has since told the Wall Street Journal that he regrets many of these recommendations. That’s because forcing people to change passwords and requiring them to use special characters often lead them to choose easy-to-remember (and therefore insecure) passwords that follow a particular scheme or pattern. For example, “password1” is no more secure than “password.” Thus, NIST has now revised its guidelines, but not all providers have followed suit. Very often, you are forced to use special characters, numbers, and uppercase and lowercase letters in a password.
How Are Passwords Cracked?
To learn how to choose a secure password, you need to understand how hackers do their work. The simplest approach is to systematically try all possible password combinations in what is known as a brute-force attack. Fortunately, it is rarely possible to log in to an online…
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