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Password Strategy Part 1

Today we start a three article series on developing good password strategy for you small business. As it happens, there is a great resource available courtesy of Her Majesty’s Government. The British signals intelligence department, GCHQ, has published a guide to password policy entitled Password Guidance: Simplifying Your Approach. This 12 page guide offers password advise in seven sections. They are:

Change all default passwords on devices that you deploy on ...

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What Stuff Needs Security?

One of the goals of this website is to help small business owners and regular folks secure their digital world by providing useful information that can be put into practice. Today we are going to be looking at what sorts of digital assets need securing.

Email accounts are the number one target of cyber-criminals. ...

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Updates Beat Security Programs

According to security experts polled in a recent Google Study, the two best ways to stay safe online are to keep your operating system and applications patched by running updates when prompted, and by using a password management tool, such as LastPass. 32% of security professionals said that running updates was the most important and effective security ...

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Using LastPass

I recently accepted the position of Secretary in the Twins Cities chapter of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2-TC, and in order to send me the passwords for certain online chapter assets, it was requested that I sigh up for the password management product, LastPass. I have written previously about LastPass, KeePass, and RoboForm as recently as June ...

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More Security Headaches For Mac Users

In the last couple of weeks we have read about two new security issues with Apple’s OSX operating system. The first was about a new threat named “CORED” or “XARA” (for Cross-App Resource Access). In this exploit a rogue app on the App Store could use the elevated privileges of another installed app to execute malicious code at a higher ...

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Have a WordPress Site? Better Secure It!

WordPress has become an incredibly popular web design platform, and currently has about a 25% share of all web sites on the Internet. As an open-source software product that is free to download and use, with a great support and documentation through WordPress.org, and a huge, international development community providing an endless array of themes, plug-ins and widgets, it is ...

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Should You Store Your Passwords In The Cloud?

One of the relatively easy ways to create longer, stronger, more complex, and totally unique passwords for all your online accounts is to use a password manager service. Some of the more popular ones include RoboForm, KeePass, and LastPass. These services create unique bits of gibberish for each site, and automatically apply them to ...

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Secret Questions Too Hard To Answer

As we have mentioned several times, humans represent the weakest link in cybersecurity. This means we are terrible at creating strong passwords, and we are bad at remembering them, too. So all of our online service providers have password reset systems that usually include a series of “secret” questions that are supposed to be both hard for an attacker to guess, but easy for the account holder to remember. Unfortunately, ...

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Your Brain Waves Could Be Your Password

We have been relying on the trusty password for years, but as password cracking technologies improve, even longer and more complex passwords are being solved and sold on rainbow tables. So passwords are for the most part over. Two factor authentication is possibly a solution, but biometrics are becoming a big part of what is next in the field of user authentication. We have already seen fingerprint scanners on some ...

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LinkedIn Passwords Found on Russian Site

If you are on LinkedIn, as I am, today is a good day to change your password. It seems that about 6.5 million LinkedIn usernames an password have found their way onto a Russian cyber-crime website. While LinkedIn initially disputed the report of security researcher Per Thorsheim, they recently admitted that they had lost control of some users’ credentials and Continue Reading →

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