Linked: This World Password Day Diligently Review your Passwords
I’m a day late on this, but didn’t want to let it go without mentioning the day, and the importance of better password management. Several times people choose easy-to-remember passwords rather than...
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Linked: Federal Law Won’t Protect Your Organization from Bad User Access...
If you've seen references to a court ruling sort of redefining the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act recently, or even if you haven't, this paragraph from the folks at McGuire Woods boils down the real life...
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Linked: Over 1 million GoDaddy WordPress accounts breached
The breach of the WordPress credentials is bad, as is the sFTP credentials. Sure, if you are still using the same WordPress password that GoDaddy assigned to you when you started the account, you...
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Linked: DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people
There is an obvious question here, right? Why do you still have this database sitting around? Seriously, why? Either you're telling the truth and you have a vulnerable system sitting out there that...
View ArticleAnother Reminder of Failing to Train – Kids and Social Media
Why did we think anything on the public internet was a place to let kids roam with no training? The post Another Reminder of Failing to Train – Kids and Social Media appeared first on Mike McBride...
View ArticleWill Microsoft Start Un-bundling M365 Licenses?
If Teams bundled with Office is anti-competitive, what other tools available in M365 could likewise be considered anti-competitive? We await the results of the EU investigation. The post Will Microsoft...
View ArticleWhy do Hackers Target Law Firms? – Here’s an Example
Over the years I think many firms have started to understand that and taken steps to improve their own security posture. And then along comes a story like this. The post Why do Hackers Target Law...
View ArticleThis Was Entirely Predictable – Hackers Tricking People Into Facial Scans
Collecting all of that information to verify the age of website visitors creates an extra-large target for that biometric information. When I applied online for unemployment, I had to provide copies of...
View ArticleStolen Data is a Risk, Here’s an Example of Altered Data That is Worse
The entire system is based on the license plate database being connected to all of the automated plate readers. All it took for this to become a problem was for part of that not to stay safe. Since the...
View ArticleLinked – ChatGPT in trouble with the EU (again)
This story seems inevitable to me. As the tech world pushes us increasingly into asking an AI chatbot for information instead of looking it up ourselves, and the AI model has incorrect information,...
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