by Schehrezade Davidson | Feb 27, 2012 | Phishing, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Huffington Post brings us a video that comes as no surprise. The most used password is PASSWORD1, followed by Welcome. That’s right, folks. If you only try those 2 passwords you’ll be able to hack into 6% of user accounts out there – and that...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 17, 2012 | Cyberthieves, Phishing, Retail, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Scanning Twitter for responses to the Zappos breach, we have a few favourites that are awfully telling: From @jjmartucci: I bet 99% of the stolen Zappos passwords were “shoes”. // Fact: most passwords are frighteningly easy to guess. We bet that those...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 16, 2012 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Phishing, Retail, Vulnerabilities
Zappos has remained tight-lipped about the nature of their data breach this week. As many as 24 million consumer accounts may have been accessed through an attack on their server in Kentucky. That is as detailed as they’re willing to go. Full credit card numbers...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 5, 2012 | Mobile, Usability
As mobile devices flood the market and consumers increase their browsing time on small screens with smaller keyboards, the alphanumeric password is seeming less and less user friendly. Windows, trying to appeal to the mobile savvy user, is initiating an authentication...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 9, 2011 | Phishing, Trends, Vulnerabilities
These days it seems that while hackers evolve with trends in technology, the general computer user is no more identity savvy than he was before Facebook made identities a virtual open book. Data breaches, hacks, and attempted hacks are in the news regularly, and yet...
