WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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More reasons to enable #2FA 2 factor authentication, never reuse #password & register to @HaveIbeenPwned

More reasons to enable #2FA 2 factor authentication, never reuse #password & register to @HaveIbeenPwned | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions of the
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Pretty much your whole life is online and digitize today. Your only protection from crooks is strong passwords that you never reuse. This article provides in depth discussion on the millions of passwords that are being sold for few dollars on the dark web. It should help you understand why this is important and what to do to be more secure.

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How #Palantir could help power #Trump's #extremeVetting of immigrants & what US gov knows about you 

How #Palantir could help power #Trump's #extremeVetting of immigrants & what US gov knows about you  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Training materials obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show Palantir plays a role in a far-reaching customs system
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Just follow the link to the 2012 report and find out what it means to cross reference different digital databases.

 

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Our lives are digital and we leave digital exhaust behind us everywhere we go. This paper shows what the US government uses to put together a composite picture of your digital twin. For now, they plan to use this for border crossing but in the future - 10 or 20 years down the road - what will this info be used for? Also, knowing that military and very advanced technology always makes it into the corporate world, how will this be used by corporations? 

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