How many of last year’s cybersecurity resolutions did you actually deploy in 2018? Not as many as you had hoped?
The new year gives us the opportunity to plan and deploy the computer and network security upgrades we need to implement to protect us from the exploits of cyber-criminals and other bad actors. What is on your list? Going to start using a ...
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I have been warning about the weakness of the password for a number of years. Passwords no longer provide strong security. Passwords are too easy to crack using automated techniques, and are stored insecurely in many environments. Most passwords are too short, or easily guessable. Many users reuse the same password on multiple sites. But the password remains the most popular form of authentication among most users. Two-factor and multi-factor ...
I was trying to do some research on encryption and discovered that due to “lack of funding,” government websites are down. This is crazy. Costs the same to run this page as it does to leave the whole site up! Trump shuts down the government – solution – spank the taxpayers!https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf
From Pinterest – our favorite thing – passwords
Check out the top 25 most used and least secure passwords of 2018 and whether yours made the cut.
1. 123456 (Rank unchanged from last year)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 123456789 (Up 3)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
5. 12345 (Unchanged)
6. 111111 (New)
7. 1234567 (Up 1)
8. sunshine (New)
9. qwerty (Down ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.More disconcerting news for router owners – a new assessment of 28 popular models for home users failed to find a single one with firmware that had fully enabled underlying security hardening features offered by Linux.
CITL (Cyber Independent Testing Laboratories) says it made this unexpected discovery after analysing firmware images from ...
Continue Reading →We occasionally get requests from other writers who want to post on our blog. This is one of those times. Thanks to Panda Security for this infographic. To read the accompanying article, please click through to their site.
Today we feature another guest post from Kim Turner.
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Today we have a “guest post” from US-CERT. I really like this article of theirs and I am simply reposting it for my own readers. This is a great checklist, even for computers already connected to the Internet.
Because computers play such critical roles in our ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Everyone else has reported this Christmas gem, why shouldn’t we? NASA engineer Mark Rober “over-engineered the crap” out of it, including motion detection, geofencing, and 4 cameras to record some priceless reactions. Here is the YouTube video.
What’s ...
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