Tag: Passwords
CAM Week1 – Passwords, Password Managers, and Protecting Connected Devices
Passwords and Password Managers & If You Connect It, Protect It Welcome to the first week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Each week we will discuss two primary topics. One of those topics will be the CAM 2020 “official” weekly topic…
October News from Information Security
October is here! Did you know there are 190 official and unofficial “days” in October? I know, there are only 31 actual days, but many days are workhorses, serving as “the day” for multiple celebrations, from National Pumpkin Day to…
Welcome to the very late June newsletter! A failure to plan and pre-write the June newsletter, plus a virtual conference during the first week of June, then a frenzy of activity at work, then a couple of vacation days has…
Data Breach Notification: LiveJournal
In 2019, there was news of a possible breach of LiveJournal data. In May of 2020, the breach was confirmed by the release of the data on a hacking forum. There were 26 million records exposed from the site, which…
Wait? It’s May already? Where did April go? It passed by as we were stuck at home and no, you didn’t miss the the April newsletter, as it was lost in the work-from-home shuffle. There’s a hint of a light…
With everyone spending more time at home, traffic on social media sites has grown tremendously. One particular item to avoid during this time of boredom meltdown, even though they may be fun, are so-called “surveys” on social media sites. You…
In October of 2016, the website Adult Friend Finder experienced a data breach. This was a part of the larger Friend Finder Networks breach. There were nearly 170 million records exposed from the site, which included email addresses, passwords, spoken…