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Should not be a problem unless you have pretty simple-to-guess passwords (e.g., P@s$w0rd123) or reuse passwords across multiple sites..... Original Post at Softpedia.com
Following the huge debacle related to the LinkedIn data breach that came to light last week, Microsoft's Identity Protection team has decided to ban the usage of common or simple passwords that may be easy to guess or have already appeared in breach lists. So, you can no longer use "Password123" or "p@$$w0rd". Original Post at CMS Wire
As a concept, hacktivism is the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals. Original Post at ITNews.com
Many businesses pride themselves on the integrity of their people, with executives and managers saying things like, “We trust our people, so in our business there is no such thing as the insider threat.” Original Post at Yahoo! Finance
"And while you could swear up and down that you’d never be tricked into downloading malware, cybercriminals get plenty of people to do just that. Here’s the thing: That email you opened to get ransomware on your computer in the first place was specifically written to get you to believe it was real. That’s because criminals use social engineering to craft their messages." Original Post at The Guardian
This article reads like the episode of Elementary, Dirty Laundry (Season 1), come to life. "If you behave like Bond, you’ll last half a day, maybe a day. Even if there was an imaginary safe where all the secrets are kept, by tomorrow half of them will be outdated and useless. The best kind of intelligence is to understand what your opponent will think tomorrow, not find out what he thought yesterday.” Original Post at YouTube
This really high prime number is actually the key to both encryption (private, public key) and hashing and why it's difficult to crack a strong password. It's all due to math (division mostly |
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