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Is Your Password Manager’s Promise of “Military-Grade” Security Actually True? – Wccftech


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Is Your Password Manager's Promise of “Military-Grade” Security Actually True?
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Security experts from TeamSIK of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Germany, have analyzed nine Android password managers, revealing that each of them had at least one low, medium or high severity vulnerability. “Applications …

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Researchers propose a way to use your heartbeat as a password

Researchers at Binghamton State University in New York think your heart could be the key to your personal data. By measuring the electrical activity of the heart, researchers say they can encrypt patients’ health records.  

The fundamental idea is this: In the future, all patients will be outfitted with a wearable device, which will continuously collect physiological data and transmit it to the patients’ doctors. Because electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are already collected for clinical diagnosis, the system would simply reuse the data during transmission, thus reducing the cost and computational power needed to create an encryption key from scratch.

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How to Hack Apple Mac Encryption Password in Just 30 Seconds

Macintosh computers are often considered to be safer than those running Windows operating system, but a recently discovered attack technique proves it all wrong. All an attacker needs is a $ 300 device to seize full control of your Mac or MacBook.
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Why your password is still important – even if you use multi-factor authentication

Why your password is still important - even if you use multi-factor authentication

Just because you have two factor authentication doesn’t mean you can afford to be sloppy with password security, explains guest contributor Bob Covello.

Graham Cluley