Via @AlishaEbrahimji
Seriously. And it's seriously compromising. Comparing the most common passwords of 2020 to those of 2019, there's little to no difference — aka we haven't learned much.
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Via @LindseyOD123
The Better Business Bureau warns of phishing messages with the Zoom logo that tell recipients they have a missed meeting or suspended account.
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Via @LindseyOD123
It's no time to let your guard down: Malicious attachments continue to be a top threat vector in the cybercriminal world, even as public awareness increases and tech companies amp up their defenses.
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Via @EmilyStewartM
If you’ve visited a new website over the past 18 months or so, you’ve probably seen it: a notification informing you the page is using cookies to track you and asking you to agree to let it happen. Wonder why?
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The odds are very good one or more of the passwords you've used at some point during your online life has been compromised.
Passwords are occasionally highjacked en masse when hackers manage to breach security systems put in place to protect online...Read more
Via @matthewhughes
MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93.
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The number of ways thieves can steal from you on the Internet is many. But one of the most insidious — albeit clever — might be a request for an urgent money transfer you receive via email that seems to come from your manager or company's finance...Read more
Via Tom Spring
Increasingly threat actors are planting bad code in open-source repositories in the hopes to harvest the flaws late.
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Via Ezequiel Bruni
People who break into other systems are nothing if not predictable. There are a number of pretty common kinds of attacks that can be prevented largely through simple forethought and planning.
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