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Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of transferring Authy from one phone to another. Image: Miha Creative/Adobe Stock Authy is a two-factor authentication app that makes it possible for you to easily work with 2FA codes for the apps and services you use. Two-factor authentication adds a layer of security to the sites and services you use. Once you’ve added 2FA to a site, it will not only prompt you for your account credentials…

Image: everythingpossible/Adobe Stock The world’s largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals, (ISC)2, estimates we’ve had a YOY increase of 7,000 cybersecurity professionals and that currently, over four million people work in cybersecurity worldwide. And yet shortages remain. The workforce gap is increasing everywhere, including the Asia-Pacific region, which at nearly 1.5 million cybersecurity professionals short, has the lowest talent gap. Elsewhere in the world, the need far outweighs the supply. What happens when companies…

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of importing passwords from a CSV list into 1Password. Image: monticellllo/Adobe Stock At this point in our timeline, strong passwords have become tantamount to security. The problem is that many people are stuck in the early 2000s and are using simple passwords they can memorize. Unfortunately, those simple passwords are easily hacked. What do you do? Start using complicated passwords and attempt to memorize every one of them?…

The current state of the UK’s cyber threat landscape was outlined by Marsha Quallo-Wright, deputy director for critical national infrastructure at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), during a keynote address on the final day of Infosecurity Europe 2022. Quallo-Wright began by describing the cyber threats posed by nation-states, particularly Russia and China. She said that Russia remains “one of the world’s most prolific cyber actors and dedicates significant resources to conducting cyber operations across the globe.” However,…

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has warned the public about a spate of fake messages, sent out as SMS text messages, fraudulently telling recipients that they have been exposed to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. In a tweet, the NHS said that it had seen reports of text messages that claimed to come from the NHS, telling recipients that they had been in close contact with someone who had a confirmed COVID-19 infection, and…

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake. In a rush to own this term, many vendors have lost sight of the fact that the openness of a…