Linked – Forget data thieves, data sabotage will be your next IT nightmare
Instead of stealing your information, what if I close your bank account? Or change your DMV record to show that your license has been suspended?
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Linked – The Top 10 Usernames and Passwords Hackers Try to Get into Remote Computers
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
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Linked – WiFi Network Security Experiment
“The best way to keep yourself safe is to use your own Wi-Fi connection, if you’re able to set up a personal hotspot, or to ask employees (such as baristas in a coffee shop) which network is theirs. A free connection that pops up while you’re on the go might just be too good to…
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Linked – The Perilous Side of the Cloud: Shadow IT and Excess Data
“While the panel advocated eliminating shadow IT, they admitted the efforts involved in doing so could prove daunting. “The average employee is using about 28 cloud services, so when someone leaves that company, how long is it going to take … to shut all that down, and how do you get that data back?” said…
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Linked – Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors
“It’s still not clear how, but a disproportionately large number of websites that run on the WordPress content management system are being hacked to deliver crypto ransomware and other malicious software to unwitting end users. In the past four days, researchers from three separate security firms have reported that a large number of legitimate WordPress…
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Linked – TrueCrypt Is Dead. Long Live VeraCrypt!
“Until a year or 2 ago, the best-known program for creating and using encrypted container files was TrueCrypt, which was open source and widely supported with millions of users. Then the project was abruptly shut down. No one quite knows why, but rumours persist that the developers were formally discouraged from maintaining something that could…
