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“It turns out that all of the security in the world won’t stop a disgruntled — or adequately incentivized — employee. According to research done by Austin, Texas-based security company SailPoint, one in five employees would sell their work passwords for money.” First off, let me just say that I do not ever condone this….
Check the lists and if you have accounts setup to use any of the common usernames or passwords, you might want to go ahead and change that. Like now, before someone starts remotely controlling your computer. Assuming they haven’t already. The Top 10 Usernames and Passwords Hackers Try to Get into Remote Computers
“Thomas Brown of The Brown Firm in Florida was yet another victim of a ransomware attack which encrypted his data, leaving him out of business and without access to his data. The cybercriminals demanded $2500 in bitcoin for the decryption key. The firm said that they had to pay up or lose all their data…
“According to research 77 percent of people said that they did not feel that public Wi-Fi was any less secure than their own personal internet connection, 75 percent also said that they wouldn’t curb their activity on public Wi-Fi and they weren’t conscious of anything they may need to avoid doing whilst using it, showing…
This article reminded me of a statistic I saw during a presentation on insider threats last week. In a recent survey, over one third of employees would willingly sell their passwords/access to anyone, some for as little as $150. See the problem here is that while so many people are starting to wake up to…