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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'passwords'


More on Facebook Phishing

Symantec has been following the trends in Facebook phishing and the current wave of attacks looks similar to previous ones. Of course no one goes to this much trouble to vandalize Facebook pages, there is money to be made (stolen)...

Researchers Hijack Botnet Gain Insight to Bots and Their Victims

Researchers from the Security Group at the UC Santa Barbara Computer Science department hijacked the Torpig botnet for 10 days. In that time the found what you'd expect (some users are very lax with security) and some things not so...

Sharing Accounts a Common Practice

A couple of studies are showing that employees are sharing their usernames and passwords with other employees and even family member or others outside the company. There are ways to address this irresponsible behavior....

Expect Another Firefox Patch Next Week

A problem accessing and saving passwords in Firefox 3.0.2 emerged this week. Mozilla has a patched developed and it's expected to be released next week. This from Mike Beltzner at Mozilla:...

Different Passwords for Differrent Sites without the Hassle

Google engineer HongHai Shen advocates in a blog post to use strong passwords and to use different passwords for different sites. Easier said than done without the right tools, but there is a way to do this without having to...

Employee Canned for Exposing Blank Passwords at TJX

The Register is reporting a TJX employee was fired for Internet postings about blank passwords on company servers as recently as a few weeks ago. After the long drawn out saga of their data breach last year this is the...

Passwords for Chocolate

What works in social engineering? Chocolate for one thing. It doesn't take much to get people to give up information as one group of researchers in the UK recently found....

Password Cracking with a Graphics Card

It's easy to forget how computationally powerful some graphics cards are. They create near realistic renderings of objects and it turns out their good for password cracking, too. New Scientist is reporting that Elcomsoft, a Moscow based software company, has...

Insider Abuse at Dept. of Homeland Security

A federal agent with Department of Commerce is being charged with misusing a federal database to harass and abuse his ex-girlfriend. eWeek reports: According to the indictment, Robinson, began a relationship with an unidentified woman in 2002 that ended acrimoniously...

5 New Anti-Phishing Techniques

Controlling phishing with spam filtering and user awareness are effective to some degree but other technologies and techniques promise to improve on these. In this podcast, we discuss trusted paths, 2-factor authentication, password hashing, transaction analysis and anti-phishing toolbars. For...

Secure Encryption will Take More than Better Algorithms

GCN is reporting on the NSA's move to adopt ECC as a standard for encryption eventually replacing RSA and Diffie-Hellman. The driver is the fear that to keep messages secure for the next 10 to 20 years, we'll need at...

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