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One easy way for underwriters to find out if their clients’ data has already been breached

August 15, 2019 by Jason Contant

Underwriters can better price cyber insurance if they have a clear understanding of that user’s real risk of being breached. To do that, it’s essential to understand when a user’s email and password combination has been exposed in a previous

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Easy advice to help protect your clients against cyber attacks

April 30, 2019 by Jason Contant

What’s one easy piece of advice you can provide to your clients to help protect them from cyber-attacks? Change your passwords. Nearly one-third (30%) of people in Canada and the United States use the same passwords for all or most

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Credential stuffing: Canada’s newest cyber threat

April 15, 2019 by Jason Contant

A new cyber threat called “credential stuffing” is emerging, and Canada is the third-most targeted country in the world, according to a new report. Credential stuffing is when hackers take a stolen username and password and then run it through

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Password breach could have ripple effects well beyond Yahoo

September 27, 2016 Raphael Satter - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON – As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web. While