Blog Posts Tagged with "password"
Where Are Your Default Admin Passwords?
June 24, 2011 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
The passwords should be constructed in two parts, each part entered by different person, which increases the complexity significantly and reduces the possibility of using social knowledge of a single person to attack the password. Also, no one single person knows the password...
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LastPass Demonstrates Impeccable Crisis Handling
May 17, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
The actions of LastPass have been exemplary – the actual loss in this instance was either non-existent or negligible. Many larger companies would have simply brushed this under the table and perhaps introduced some new security measures under the cloak of a version update...
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Facebook Debuts Two-Factor Login Authentication
May 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The new authentication feature allows users the option of requiring that a one-time numeric authentication code be entered in addition to the standard username/password combination if the network detects a login attempt from a device that has not been previously saved by the user...
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How To Harden Your Passwords and Protect Your Base
May 09, 2011 Added by:Brent Huston
Preliminary scanning of some of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in North America, Europe, and Asia and uncovered thousands of embedded devices susceptible to attack, thanks to default credentials and remote administration panels being available to the Internet...
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LastPass Password Manager Issues Security Alert
May 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
To counter the potential threat, LastPass is going to force everyone to change their master passwords. Additionally, they're going to want an indication that you're you, by either ensuring that you're coming from an IP block you've used before or by validating your email address...
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Authentication: The Holy Grail of Information Security
May 02, 2011 Added by:Brent Huston
Adding something you are to something you have and something you know makes it much more difficult to spoof identity, but still doesn’t render it impossible. And imagine the inconvenience. Seems like way too much just to protect some financial data or health information, huh?
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Is the NSTIC Strategy for a Passwordless System Viable?
April 21, 2011 Added by:Gurudatt Shenoy
Considering the acknowledgement by the White House itself that their own technology is pretty outdated at 10 years old, what hope is there that an elephant such as the government would move fast enough to provide a universal identity for Americans, one that would be truly universal?
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Faux Facebook Message Spreading Malware
April 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Just because an email claims to hail from password@facebook.com, support@facebook.com or message@facebook.com, realize that its headers could have been forged - and don't blindly follow its instructions unless you're absolutely certain it's legitimate..."
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