Many CISOs already assume that social media creates new openings for password guessing, but new research helps show what that risk looks like in practice. The findings reveal how much information can be reconstructed from public profiles and how that data influences the strength of user passwords. The study also examines how LLMs behave when asked to generate or evaluate passwords based on that same personal information. The research team from the University of Cagliari … More →
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Immune Response Gene Variants Tied to Earlier Breast Cancer in BRCA1 Carriers
Researchers headed by a team at Tel Aviv University have discovered that damaging variants in genes involved in a rapid immune response (innate immunity) are

