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Category Archives: Security Blog
USBKill Switch Engaged
USBKill is a kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports (such as removing the usb) and then immediately shuts down your computer and is available on GitHub. USBKill should be paired with full disk encryption for maximum … Continue reading
Password Complexity Vs. Length
As you can see, after adding several characters, it takes a password cracker seconds to millions of millennia to crack a password.
May the Fourth: Star Wars Day
This has always bothered me.
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Tagged lol, May 4th, passwords, Star Wars Day
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World War II Encryption
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Schools Hacked
The University of California Berkeley school was hit with a data breach that might have exposed students’ Social Security numbers. The data held in the breached computer included Names, Social Security, and bank account numbers. The breach affected about 260 … Continue reading
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
If you visited a restaurant, bar, or retail outlet at a Hard Rock Hotel or Casino between September 3rd, 2014 and April 2nd, 2015 in Las Vegas, and don’t have credit monitoring set up, please check your statements and/or sign … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, credit card, hacked, hard rock cafe, hotel, restaurant, retailers
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How Social Engineering Affected Tesla
In totally uncool moves, two Tesla owned accounts were hijacked via social engineering: A bad guy called AT&T customer support and pretended to be a Tesla employee. This person then demanded all phone calls to the company be forwarded to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hacked, hackers, Security Awareness, social engineering, Tesla, Third Party Assessments
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Seven Deadly Employee Sins – How Companies Get Compromised
The average person thinks that companies get hacked by super hackers with amazing knowledge on computer systems and can break encryption by staring at jumbled code like John Forbes Nash Jr. in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. It may be … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, Security Awareness
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General David Petraeus
General David Petraeus was sentenced to serve two years on probation and to pay an $100,000 fine on Thursday for sharing classified information with his biographer and lover, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus pled guilty to one federal charge for giving 5-by-8 … Continue reading
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Data Breach Bills to Protect Consumers from Hackers and CyberCriminals
Last Tuesday, two new bipartisan senate bills was proposed to increase notification and create/enhance information sharing by Senators Mark Kirk (R) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D) where introduced to congress. The following is what was transcribed. By Mr. KIRK (for himself … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Data Breach Notification and Punishing CyberCriminals Act, Information Sharing Credit Act, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Senate Bill, U.S. Senators
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