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A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
GoSecure, a leader in cybersecurity solutions, recently made headlines with their innovative approach to tackling digital threats. Employing a sophisticated 'hacker honeypot', the company is turning the tables on cybercriminals....
The Country Where You Live Impacts Password Choices
Literacy, levels of personal freedom, and other macro-social factors help determine how strong average passwords are in a given locale, researchers have found.
When it comes to choosing passwords, it turns out that a person’s country of residence has an impact on the strength of their choice.
Researchers from GoSecure have uncovered four primary macro-social factors that strongly correlate to positive password performance (measured by the time it takes to crack the credential, in seconds). Those are:
- Level of human rights in-country and its degree of free society;
- Literacy level of a population;
- Country’s placement in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI); and
- Level of data-breach exposure and victimization.
“Countries have an impact on the level of protection of their users,” according to the report, released this week. “A user’s country of origin and/or residence necessarily has an impact on their social identity. It means that our social identity, which can be influenced by several levels (e.g., macro and micro), might have an impact on password choice.”
Press Releases
GoSecure Launches Next-Generation Antivirus
GoSecure announces the addition of Next-Generation Antivirus to their industry leading Managed Detection and Response portfolio. As traditional antivirus is shown to be increasingly ineffective at stopping advanced attacks, organizations are looking to next-generation antivirus (NGAV) to meet their needs. GoSecure’s NGAV offering provides several advanced endpoint security capabilities including: behavioral detection, sandboxing, script and exploit protection, botnet protection, network protection, ransomware protection and memory analysis.
GoSecure’s Presence at SecTor Highlighted by Two Technical Presentations
GoSecure will be presenting two technical sessions at SecTor, Canada’s premier IT security conference in October. SecTor has built a reputation of bringing together experts from around the world to share their latest research and techniques involving underground threats and corporate defenses.
GoSecure Acquires EdgeWave to Bolster Managed Detection and Response Capabilities
GoSecure announces the acquisition of EdgeWave, a leader in Inbox Detection and Response services. With the EdgeWave acquisition, GoSecure moves its industry leading detection and response capabilities, powered by the CounterTack technology platform, upstream into the primary entry point of most cybersecurity attacks – the email inbox.
GoSecure’s Black Hat Presence Highlighted by Three Technical Presentations
GoSecure will be presenting three technical sessions at Black Hat, the world’s leading information security event. Members of GoSecure’s Red Team and Research and Development Team will be sharing their cutting-edge research and in-depth knowledge on Social Network Manipulation, Malware Research Tools and Penetration Testing.
GoSecure Powered by CounterTack Appoints James Kunkel as Chief Operating Officer
GoSecure announces the appointment of James Kunkel as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Kunkel recently served as the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development and Administration at Trustwave. Under his leadership Trustwave was one of the most successful buyers and integrators of security companies in the industry.
