Given the wide range of personal information exposed, the possibility of attackers obtaining plaintext passwords is only one of the major concerns stemming from the breach. Yahoo users should be wary of communications that may use some of the compromised data to trick them into clicking on links, divulging information, or taking other actions.
Glad that I recently changed my Yahoo/Flickr password, but there are a lot of various things that are Yahoo properties, so I can’t help but wonder how many areas were affected. Nothing is safe.
I found this article from The Hill to be rather enlightening on the subject of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because it shows that most of the critics of it, on both sides of the political spectrum, simply don’t understand what it is. Most of them seem to think it either: Frees big…
Saw an article the other day that reminded me of something I rediscover with every training class. “I teach my people on day one…’People don’t want drills, they want holes.’” There’s something very profound in that statement. The reality that “most” people don’t buy tools, or technology, just because they want the technology. They buy…
Well this should make for some interesting eDiscovery review. It’s one of the things I used to demonstrate in class actually, once you’ve identified one suspicious actor, the first thing you do is check out who they’ve been talking to. The NFL is about to find themselves in the middle of that. Hope they weren’t…
“So what kind of “hate speech” on social media is now leading to Russians being sent to prison? Apparently anyone criticizing Russia’s involvement in Ukraine: Several months after his arrest, Bubeyev pleaded guilty to inciting hatred toward Russians and was sentenced to a year in prison. His offense was sharing articles, photos and videos from…
Google is really doing a lot for apps customers to make it easier to store data in the cloud. Security improvements, and now improvements to make it easier for companies to use Google Drive without losing what they need in terms of Information Governance and eDiscovery, mean that corporations can seriously think about storing data…
