I came across this doozy in a book my kid is reading — “Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival.” In one scene Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is trying to access a computer of some sort of his former Padawan, Xanatos. Of…
Even Jedi Use Weak Passwords
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Weekly Rewind – Numbers, REAL Threat Intelligence, OPM Data & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Chinese Using OPM Data?”, 2) “Creating REAL Threat Intelligence…with Evernote Slides from SourceDublin”, and…
Video of the Week – Forgot Password
A few days ago @joeklein tweeted this video titled “Forgot Password.” Yeah, it’s a comedy routine but it does provide a good perspective on how average people view all those complex passwords and other authentication rigmaroles we force upon them. The…
Weekly Rewind – Cybersecurity, Security Tools, Incident Response & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Fukishima: Incident Response Done Right”, 2) “You Probably Already Have Most of the Security…
Video of the Week – How Forced Expiration Affects Password Choice
Bruce K. Marshall delivered this great presentation discussing the history, research, and his thoughts on the “best practices” for password expiration at the Passwords 14 conference earlier this month in Las Vegas, NV. From the abstract – “Forcing users to…
Weekly Rewind – NSA, OPM, Password Changes & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Change Your Password…Charge Your Life”, 2) “Did the Chinese Hack OPM’s e-QIP?”, and 1)…
Plain Text Offenders FAQ
We wrote about PlainTextOffenders.com years ago but still continue to tweet it every so often just as a reminder. Someone on Twitter recently pointed out their hilarious Developer FAQ. Below are the first three but click the link at the…
Weekly Rewind – DNS Root Zone, Linux, Apple TV & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Local Discovers iTunes ID & Password Disclosure on Apple TV”, 2) “Free Intro to…
Local Discovers iTunes ID & Password Disclosure on Apple TV
Local David “@DarthNull” Schuetz continues to make the headlines in all things Apple. Before it was the discovery of the source of the UDID leak (a.k.a., BlueToadGate); now he has found a password disclosure flaw in recent firmware versions for the…
NTPasswd Updated after 3 Year Hiatus
One of the topics we have a habit of covering here are older popular security tools that have been recently updated to better address today’s environment. The next tool in this series is the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor…