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 | 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...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Mar 17, 2010 | Cyberthieves, Phishing, Trends
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently released their report on 2009 Internet crime statistics. As you can probably guess, there were more complaints, more losses, higher average loss per incident. IC3 is a federally funded non-profit, a joint operation...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Mar 9, 2010 | Banking, Phishing, Vulnerabilities
Several researchers the University of Michigan have succeeded in cracking the RSA security technology which protects all ecommerce and online banking transactions. The university scientists found that they could deduce tiny pieces of a private key by injecting slight...
