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Tag Archives: passwords
My Google GPS Footprint
I was in Hawaii on vacation from the 4th of July to the 17th. If you have an Android phone with GPS on, you can access your location history. Now of course, like most technology, this can be really cool, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2-step, 2014, android, footprint, Google location history, gps, Information Technology Security Awareness, passwords, Security Awareness, two-factor
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Lights, Camera, Hacktion
A vulnerability was found by some white-hat hackers who researched how to obtain the wifi passwords of homes that had super cool lights that could be turned on, off, or dimmed by an app on a phone (both IOS and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, camera, hacked, Information Technology Security Awareness, Internet of Things, lights, passwords, Security Awareness, wifi
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Tedx CMU: Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users — and secured sites — make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Lorrie Faith Cranor, passwords, ted, ted talks, Tedx CMU
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Intel: 4238 Years to Crack My Password
According to this website that Intel has created: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/forms/passwordwin.html, it would take about 4238 years to crack my password. Which does make me wonder, it being Intel, that they are taking into account Moore’s law, which is the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Bruce Schneier, encryption, password safe, passwords, truecrypt, twofish
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More Passwords on TV
It’s been more common to post your passwords on television (like here), lol Graham Cluley shows on his site more like the image below.
Don Frieson: Forgotten Password Comedy
Some good clean comedy about passwords and websites with comedian Don Frieson.
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Tagged 2014, comedian, Don Frieson, lol, passwords, standup
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Sniffing, Arp Poisoning, and Armitage
Here is a little video of sniffing passwords with Ettercap while Hacking the box with Armitage. This video is a little old since Kali linux has replaced backtrack by Offensive Security.
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Tagged 2014, armitage, arp poisoning, backtrack, ettercap, kali, passwords, sniffing, video tutorial
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Make Your Wifi Password Complex
And for crying out loud, don’t put it up for the world to see!!1!!
Worst Passwords of 2013
According to this article, password is no longer the #1 password that people are using, now its 123456. Are people smarter when it comes to passwords? Well…. I think some are just lazy. A good password should be at least … Continue reading
