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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines for password security, representing a major change from standard practices. These new recommendations, outlined in NIST Special Publication 800-63B, aim to enhance cybersecurity while improving user experience. NIST has changed its approach to password complexity. Instead of requiring …

Meta was fined over $100 million by the EU privacy regulator on Friday due to a security issue with Facebook users’ passwords. The Irish Data Protection Commission fined the U.S. tech company 91 million euros ($101.6 million) after an investigation. The watchdog opened an investigation in 2019 after Meta reported …

Microsoft cybersecurity researchers found that the “Storm-0501” ransomware group is targeting hybrid cloud environments. Storm-0501 Attacking Cloud Environments: Storm-0501 is a ‘financially motivated’ threat group that has launched a sophisticated ‘multi-stage attack’ targeting “hybrid cloud environments” across various ‘U.S. sectors’ and ‘critical infrastructure.’ The group exploited vulnerabilities in Zoho ManageEngine, …