Items Tagged with "Passwords"
Pump Up Your P@$$w0rd$
April 03, 2012 Added by:Kevin Doel
The idea is to choose phrase that you will be able to remember and a simple algorithm for converting it to a strong password. Even the best encryption systems are not going to protect your data if you use weak passwords and a hacker gains physical access to your mobile device...
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Cyber Self Defense For Non-Geeks
March 28, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
These principles won’t be sufficient when you’re in high-risk locales and they won’t stop a targeted attack, but they will make it less likely that you’ll suffer a serious breach because of poor security habits or over-reliance on antivirus or firewall applications...
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Hacker Pleads Guilty to Celebrity Computer Intrusions
March 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Chaney admitted he hacked into the e-mail accounts by taking the victims’ e-mail addresses, clicking on the “Forgot your password?” feature, then re-setting the passwords by answering security questions using publicly available information he found on the Internet...
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Seven Problems with Cell Phone Forensics
March 26, 2012 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
Manufactures don’t always know how to retrieve data stored in new phones, so how do investigators do it? Staying up-to-date is challenging but not impossible. As criminals come up with new ways to abuse them, strangely enough, this can be beneficial for forensics...
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Social Media Security Basics: An Infographic
March 22, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Social networking has quickly become a major medium for communications for both individuals and organizations, but the platforms that allow the development of online personae are not without their own inherent risks. These social media security basics everyone should embrace...
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Pentagon Networks Hacked 250,000 Per Year
March 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Unfortunately, I suspect that if this actually happened at the Pentagon a quarter million times a year, America would be in a much, much worse position than we are today. Our battle plans would be compromised, launch codes, schematics, and covert identities would be compromised...
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Fake YouTube Site Targets Activists with Malware
March 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The fake YouTube page attacks users in two ways: it requires you to enter your YouTube login credentials in order to leave comments, and it installs malware disguised as an Adobe Flash Player update. To see if you have been infected, look for the following files...
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Enterprise Security's Achilles Heel
March 16, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Have you ever wondered why enterprise security people are so downtrodden? Baffled by the impossible arrogance of penetration testers when they laugh at corporate security postures? The bottom line: people have always been and will always be the Achilles heel...
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Do You Have A False Sense of Security for Mobile?
March 02, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
With unit sales of smartphones and tablets eclipsing those of desktop and laptop PCs, cybercriminals will continue setting their sights on mobile, and increased mobile Internet use will continue exacerbating security and data breach issues. Protect yourself...
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LM Hash Flaw: Windows Passwords Easy to Crack
March 01, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The thing is that the lower security hashes are not present on the SAM stored on the hard drive. When the security accounts are loaded into active RAM, Windows re-creates the LM hashes. The LM Hash can be pulled from active RAM using the Windows Credential Editor (WCE)...
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Waledac Spam Botnet Evolves into Password Sniffer
February 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers form Palo Alto Networks have detected a new variation of the briefly defeated Waledac spamming botnet, but this version is able to sniff out login credentials for several email protocols as well as files with the .dat extension related to BitCoin and FTP...
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Metadata: A Pentester’s Best Friend
February 17, 2012 Added by:Jake Garlie
Most modern productivity software will automatically insert this information into documents for benefits such as collaboration. However, if not removed before being published to a website, metadata can put an organization at risk...
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Encryption: A Buzzword, Not a Silver Bullet
February 16, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Encryption, buzzword, not a silver bullet for protecting data on your servers. In order to determine how encryption fits into server data protection, consider four encryption components on the server side: passwords, tables, partitions and inter-tier socket communications...
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One in Three Massachusetts Residents’ Records Breached
February 15, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Massachusetts has one of the most stringent data protection laws on the books. Companies are now reporting when even a single individual’s information has been compromised. Despite strict security requirements, companies are continually being hacked in record numbers....
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Twitter Finally Enables HTTPS as a Default Setting
February 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Among other security benefits, the HTTPS feature will prevent users from having their login credentials stolen by attackers who may attempt to harvest passwords when users access their accounts over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks...
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FBI Bitten by Operational Security
February 13, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Employees forward confidential calendar events and messages to personal calendars and personal email accounts. This may make their jobs easier but it can put their companies at risk. A recent security incident involving the FBI can teach us something about corporate security...