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Nearly two-thirds of Americans avoid using websites or accounts for which they have forgotten their password, according to new research published today by LastPass. The password manager and Vault app maker commissioned OnePoll to survey 2,005 Americans about their password habits.  According to LastPass, the results show that the “long-standing trend of poor password behavior persists despite increasing risks online.”  Almost two-thirds (64%) of survey respondents admitted that they would avoid visiting certain websites or accounts where they’ve forgotten their…

– Checkov has been downloaded over 1.2 million times since the project launched in December 2019, and today adds over 200 new policies, making it the most comprehensive open-source IaC scanner available. – Checkov 2.0’s new graph-based framework enables dependency-aware infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning in complex distributed environments. SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), today announced the second generation of Checkov, the market-leading static analysis tool for infrastructure as…

A majority of people said they’d avoid using certain websites or accounts where they’ve forgotten their password, says LastPass. Image: designer491, Getty Images/iStockPhoto Passwords are a necessary evil in a world where we have to juggle multiple accounts across an array of websites and services. We’re constantly being told to create a strong, secure and unique password for every account. But putting that advice into practice is problematic for a variety of reasons. A report…

Internet and e-commerce fraud in the UK rose by 179% during the period from 2010 to 2020, according to an analysis by Uswitch.com. In 2020 alone £376.5m was lost to internet and e-commerce fraud in the UK, which was more heavily impacted by this type of crime than any other country in Europe. Across the previous decade, more than one in nine (12%) of Brits have been affected by this kind of fraud, with a…

New HP-sponsored report finds significant increase in nation-states targeting enterprises to steal high-value IP. Image: iStock/CROCOTHERY A new report from HP released Thursday, Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit, found that nation-state cyber attacks are “moving us closer to a point of advanced cyber conflict.” “Nation-state conflict doesn’t take place in a vacuum; as evidenced by the fact enterprise is the most common victim within those attacks analyzed,” Ian Pratt, global head of…

The world is coming perilously close to nation states retaliating against cyber-attacks with conventional weapons, according to a new HP report. The study, Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit, was compiled by University of Surrey senior lecturer in criminology, Mike McGuire, from publicly available reports into state-sponsored attacks and interviews with scores of experts. It claimed there has been a 100% increase in “significant” state-backed attacks between 2017-20, and an average of over…

The legal industry’s first comprehensive data security evaluation and accreditation program has been launched today. The Data Steward Program (DSP), which has been developed by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), will enable quick assessments and comparisons of law firms’ data security standards by prospective clients. The ACC said the program has been introduced in light of growing concerns from both law firms and their clients regarding the safety of the highly sensitive data being…

The number of publicly reported breach victims in the US has soared by 564% from the end of 2020 to the first three months of this year, according to the latest data from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The non-profit claimed that 51 million consumers were affected by incidents in Q1 2021, versus eight million in the final three months of 2020. However, the volume of breaches only rose by 12%, or 363, over…