Tag: Passwords
Data Breach Notification: Adult Friend Finder Website
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…
January News from Information Security
Welcome to this special “mid-January” monthly edition of news from Information Security! With the students not returning to class until the 13th of the month, this edition was delayed to roughly coincide with their arrival. Also delayed are the security…
Phisher’s New Ploy – Keep Your Current Password!
The newest ploy by phishers circulating the Internet now is a “keep your current password” scam. The email (full text below) claims that your account expires today!!! and if you “kindly” use the button below, you can continue to use…
The days keep marching on! It’s November already and holidays and finals are growing ever closer. Fall weather is finally here, just in time for winter to blow in. I want to thank everyone who came by the table in…
NCSAM Week 2 – Privacy, Safe e-Commerce, What’s Out There About Me?
Welcome to week 2 of National Cyber Security Awareness Month! This week we will again explore all three aspects of this year’s theme – “Own IT, Secure IT, Protect IT”. Remember, the “IT” stands for “information technology”, and, just like…
Sometime in December 2018, the digital mall Wanelo suffered a data breach that included 23 million unique email addresses along with passwords. Some passwords were stored with weak encryption, others with better encryption. Either way, they are exposed and…
Welcome to National Cyber Security Awareness Month, also known as NCSAM! Every week this month we will explore topics around the theme of “Own IT, Secure IT, Protect IT”. That’s not three typos in a row, that’s “IT” as in…