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Linked: We’re still making terrible choices with passwords, even though we know better
Most people do the right thing with passwords for financial accounts, but all the websites that make them create an account just to read an article? Who really cares if that account gets hacked? Why not just use the same password for all of them? What’s the hacker going to do, read USA Today as them? Who cares?
That is all just normal, human, behavior. The thing that should scare the hell out of security professionals is how many people view their work access the same way. They don’t care. It’s not their data, it’s just the place where they happen to work, for now. This shows in the low number of people creating a strong password for their work accounts. (It also shows how making them change it every few months really just backfires.)
Linked – AI data readiness: C-suite fantasy, big IT problem
This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.Â
There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing data security internally. Now, they want to use AI, but the AI is accessing all that outdated data and exposing the places where security wasn’t correctly implemented. So, it becomes an IT problem to fix.Â
Linked – Facebook Sued for Traumatizing Content Moderators With Graphic Images
There is no question this is a difficult job. “A class action alleges that Facebook Inc. fails to provide a safe workplace for content moderators who suffer from psychological trauma relating to their jobs of weeding out graphic content depicting child abuse, suicide and other violent events.” The suit claims that Facebook didn’t take the normal steps…
Is Google About the Change The Way We Browse the Web?
The rumor is that Google Chrome will soon be using DNS over HTTP in order to navigate the web. When it does, that may provide some level of privacy, and security, but it may break a whole lot in the process, and that is worrying some: DOH will encrypt the addresses of the websites we…
