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Multi-factor authentication for online services

This guidance describes how to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to mitigate against password guessing and...
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Apple Removes iPhone USB Access Feature, Blocking Out Hackers, Law Enforcement

The move escalates tensions between the phone giant and federal law enforcement when...
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Malicious Docker Containers Earn Cryptomining Criminals $90K

Researchers said over a dozen malicious docker images available on Docker Hub allowed...
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Microsoft Reveals Which Bugs It Won’t Patch

A draft document lays out its criteria for addressing various flaws and notes...
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Dixons Carphone Cyberattack Targets 5.9M Bank Cards

Dixons Carphone said it discovered a massive cyberattack on its processing systems that...
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NCSC advice for Dixons Carphone plc customers

Who is this guidance for? Customers of Dixons Carphone plc, who the NCSC...
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Bypass Glitch Allows Malware to Masquerade as Legit Apple Files

Malware can to worm its way onto Macs thanks to a recently discovered...
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Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off ‘Massive’ Amounts of Undersea Military Data

The stolen data included "secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for...
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Unprotected Server Exposes Weight Watchers Internal IT Infrastructure

Researchers found that a critical Weight Watchers server revealed its IT internal infrastructure....
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SaaS security – surely it’s simple?

The NCSC's new SaaS security collection provides a lightweight approach for determining the security of any SaaS application....
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Confluence security review

Atlassian Confluence is a group collaborative writing tool. How Confluence performs against the SaaS...
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Slack security review

Slack is a real-time messaging and file sharing application designed to aid group collaboration. ...
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SaaS security principles

The table below lists each SaaS security principle, along with a brief description of its...
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MailChimp security review

MailChimp is an email service provider which allows users to send automated messages, marketing...
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SaaS security collection

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are increasingly popular. Many of us use them on a daily...
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G Suite security review

Google G Suite is a collection of productivity tools including spreadsheets, word processing and calendar....
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Smartsheet security review

Smartsheet is an application for managing collaborative work. Creating projects and tasks, assigning these...
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Understanding Software as a Service (SaaS) security

This guidance introduces the approach the NCSC have developed to help you understand the security...
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Zendesk security review

Zendesk is a ticketing system whose primary aim is to improve customer relations....
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Basecamp security review

Basecamp is a web-based project management and company-wide communication tool designed to improve the administration of...
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Yammer security review

Yammer is an enterprise social networking service which allows users to communicate, collaborate and...
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Office 365 security review

Microsoft Office 365 is a set of cloud-based productivity tools including word processing, spreadsheets and...
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Trello security review

Trello is a collaboration tool which uses Kanban-style boards to organise projects and teams. ...
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Jira security review

Atlassian Jira is an issue tracking and planning tool, primarily aimed at software development.   ...
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Stride security review

Stride is an enterprise communications tool featuring team chat, video and file sharing...
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Google Tackles AI Principles: Is It Enough?

AI offers an immense capacity for good -- and for unintended consequences. ...
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Facebook Software Bug Made Some Private Posts Public: 14 Million Affected

A Facebook glitch in May set millions of posts that users composed to...
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GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

Experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to complying...
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Serve websites over HTTPS (always)

Securing websites, so they keep user data private, is an essential element of...
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DNA Testing Service MyHeritage Leaks User Data of 92 Million Customers

An unspecified "private" server was found with the account data of users who...