Defining brute force attacks and how they work

Whether you’re a website owner or web user, it always pays to be vigilant online, particularly when it comes to authentication and logins. Hackers have many ways of compromising online accounts and systems, and if you don’t practice good password hygiene, you’ll likely be a victim sooner or later. One of these methods, which we’ll be talking about today, is brute force attacks. 

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Amazon Web Services has shut down accounts linked to Pegasus spyware

Following investigations by Amnesty International and The Pegasus Project in mid-July, Amazon Web Services has banned all accounts and infrastructure linked to NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance vendor. These investigations laid bare some damning revelations and human rights implications concerning NSO’s Pegasus software, a type of surveillance spyware that has been sold to governments around the world. 

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Google Chrome to launch an HTTPS-First Mode

HTTPS, the protocol that SSL enables on websites, is key to ensuring a more private web ecosystem where data is protected. When HTTPS is enabled, it ensures that the connection between a user’s browser and a website’s server is encrypted, preventing any third party from stealing any information shared over the connection. HTTPS is the reason why SSLs.com does what it does and also why there has been a massive campaign from major web browsers to ensure websites are secured by SSL.

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