Hiring kit: Cryptographer

A cryptographer uses their expertise in mathematics and computer science to develop algorithms, ciphers and other encryption systems to protect sensitive data. It can be a difficult position to fill. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides a workable framework you can use to find the best cryptographer candidate for your business. It includes a …
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Equipment reassignment checklist

The reassignment of existing equipment takes place when employees leave the organization or receive new computers, mobile devices, printers and other assets. It is essential to follow strict guidelines for equipment reassignment so that company investments, data and privacy are protected. The following checklist from TechRepublic Premium will help ensure that all the appropriate steps …
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Zacks – 8,929,503 breached accounts

In December 2022, the investment research company Zacks announced a data breach. The following month, reports emerged of the incident impacting 820k customers. However, in June 2023, a corpus of data with almost 9M Zacks customers appeared before being broadly circulated on a popular hacking forum. The most recent data was dated May 2020 and included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. On disclosure of the larger breach, Zacks advised that in addition to their original report “the unauthorised third parties also gained access to encrypted [sic] passwords of zacks.com customers, but only in the encrypted [sic] format”.

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Google Chrome: Security and UI tips you need to know

Google’s Chrome web browser held a 64.92% command of the global browser market share in April 2023. That means more users are working with Chrome in significantly more use cases: mobile, desktop and even business. Because of that, users of all types must employ Chrome with a measure of caution and intelligence. After all, most …
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