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Today’s most Prevalent Malware and How to Protect Yourself from it
In March 2018 abuse.ch, a non-profit cybersecurity organization in Switzerland launched project URLhaus with the aim of detecting, collating and sharing URLs that contain malware. In the 10 months since its inception, over 265 security researchers helped takedown nearly 100,000 websites which were distributing malware.
Hashing Algorithms for storing Passwords
Almost every week, an ever-growing list of data breaches occur around the world. In a lot of cases, attackers ultimately gain access to sensitive information such as a hashed password database. This type of information can be useful for the bad guys when targeting specific organisations and/or people.
A future ISM prospect?
Department of Homeland security has issued an emergency directive requiring all US agencies to operate with a .gov domain. AU Gov tends to follow US Gov directives in turn so potentially, this is something that may be incorporated into the ISM in future.