Tag Archives: passwords

Happy Two-Factor Tuesday!!!

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Carmelo

Check out some of my awesome posts on enabling Two-Factor What is Two-Factor? It’s something you know… like a password… and something you have, like an token generator or smartphone! That doesn’t mean have an easy to guess password though! You … Continue reading →

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Ashley Madison Users Don’t Know Password Security

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Carmelo

It took about 10 days to crack over 11 million passwords of Ashley Madison subscribers/users. Here are some of the worst ones…

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Trouble Picking a Password?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Carmelo

It’s sometimes hard picking a password, and hopefully this can help, add emoticons (sometimes called emoji) to your password. Of course don’t just use the emotes, but bolster your whole password with upper and lower case, numbers, and other special … Continue reading →

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18,000 Passwords from Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Carmelo

A breach at Penn State launched an investigation that usernames and passwords from more than 18,000 people may have been accessed. The FBI first alerted the university of the cyberattack in November 2014. The school then hired security firm FireEye … Continue reading →

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Password Complexity Vs. Length

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Carmelo

As you can see, after adding several characters, it takes a password cracker seconds to millions of millennia to crack a password.

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May the Fourth: Star Wars Day

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Carmelo

This has always bothered me.

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Single and Vulnerable… By the Millions

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Carmelo

Visitors and members of Match.com are vulnerable to plaintext sniffing from a man-in-the-middle attack. Their https, redirects to http then logins are passed in the clear. Completely readable to those on the same network. Read more here.

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ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Carmelo

11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced … Continue reading →

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Edward Snowden & John Oliver On Passwords

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Carmelo

This is what it’s like explaining password complexity to normal people.

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Uber Accounts, $1

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Carmelo

Stolen Uber Customer accounts are for sale on the Dark Web for the low price of $1.00. Though most of the credit cards are masked, the last four and the expiration date are still available. The rest of the data … Continue reading →

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