Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Social Engineering, the act of manipulating someone into divulging information or taking specific action to benefit the bad actor.…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Note: This is merely a guide. Password history policies will vary between companies and websites. This guide is starting…
Image by Gino Crescoli from Pixabay What is password complexity? Note: This is merely a guide. Password policies will vary between companies and websites. This guide is merely…
Photo by CMDR Shane on Unsplash What is a passphrase and how do I create one? Note: This is merely a guide. Password/passphrase policies will vary between companies…
Photo by Tadas Sar on Unsplash Windows has a recent zero-day vulnerability. This exploit allows attackers to establish a backdoor and run code in kernel mode. This is…
Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash Financial and personal identifiable information (PII) in today’s market is a valuable commodity. It should be an ever-growing concern for the confidentiality…
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Facebook returning to the spotlight not long after storing passwords in plaintext. According to UpGuard & Cnet, more than 540 million personal…
Image by cocoparisienne from Pixabay In a press release today, Facebook said it discovered during a routine security review, that hundreds of millions of user’s passwords were stored…
Last Friday (3/8/19), Citrix issued a statement admitting that hackers gained entry into their network. According to Stan Black, Chief Security Information Officer for Citrix,…
Photo by Goran Ivos on Unsplash 162 million emails, usernames, and hashed passwords were breached in 2018. While data breaches are a dime a dozen today, this does…