Linked – The Most Popular IT Admin Password Is Totally Depressing

Linked – The Most Popular IT Admin Password Is Totally Depressing

Well, this isn’t great.

“After sifting through more than 1.8 million pages identified as admin portals, researchers made a disheartening discovery — 40,000 of them used “admin” as its password, making it the most popular credential used by IT administrators.”

Linked – With Increased Cybersecurity Awareness, Why Does Phishing Still Work?

Linked – With Increased Cybersecurity Awareness, Why Does Phishing Still Work?

You have to create a culture where everyone is expected to verify information before acting, even when it’s coming from the CEO or Managing Partner.

What are you doing to create an environment where your people feel free to take the time necessary to evaluate the difference between a scam and legitimate communication and the ability to question authority in order to get more information?

Linked – Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

Linked – Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

As the article mentions, Microsoft does not make it easy to manage SAS tokens in bulk. It’s pretty easy to have a bunch of Azure data blob storage items lying around for years with active SAS tokens that were totally forgotten about.

If you’re using SAS tokens to share data, and it’s good for that, remember to clean up after yourself.