Security

How Long It Takes Hackers to Crack Your Password

BusinessWeek says a 6 character password (just letters) can be cracked in just 10 minutes while a 9 character password complete with letters, uppercase, numbers and symbols will take 44,530 years to crack. Take a look at the image to see other comparisons, the first column describes your password, the other columns show you how…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Fake Emails From The White House Tricked UK Government Staff

The UK’s foreign secretary has revealed that the Zeus data-stealing trojan was found installed on computers belonging to government employees, after they clicked on links contained within fake emails from the White House. Mr Hague said that “a large number of emails bypassed some of our filters” allowing the trojan to install itself, although the…

Privacy & Security Gary Cutlack

NASDAQ Confirms Hack—Company Director Chat Service Compromised

Following initial revelations last week, NASDAQ has today confirmed reports that one of its systems has been accessed by outsiders. The hackers gained access to the company’s web-based Directors Desk tool, which is a custom solution for allowing the boards of businesses to communicate in a supposedly secure manner. So if you’re on more than…

Privacy & Security Gary Cutlack

NASDAQ Stock Market Computers Compromised Repeatedly During Last Year

According to a report by the WSJ, the NASDAQ Stock Market‘s computer network was repeatedly compromised during the last year. So far it appears that no damage was done and that the hackers “have just been looking around.” While there are no official statements just yet, several sources familiar with whole matter have explained to…

Privacy & Security Rosa Golijan

No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam’s Floodgates and Kill Thousands

While discussing legislative measures concerning cyberterrorism, several legislative aides on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee said that we need to protect ourselves from hackers who could open Hoover Dam and kill thousands. But is that scenario even possible? The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the…

Privacy & Security David Kravets - Wired

The TSA’s New Body Scanners Spot Bombs, Not Dongs

Right now, you look something like this or this to the TSA’s naked body scanners. But soon, you’ll look more like a chalk outline, potential threats pinpointed on a generic sketch of a human form. No buns, just guns. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-tsa-says-body-scanners-saving-images-impossi-5696371 Starting today at Atlanta’s Hartsfield, Las Vegas’s McCarran and DC’s Ronald Reagan airports, the TSA…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan

Dating Website Leak Results in Call to Hacker’s Mom

After information on his 30 million members was compromised, Plenty of Fish CEO Markus Frind did what any sensible tech executive who cares about his reputation would do: Complain to the mom of the youngster who hacked him. In a long post on his pesonal blog, the dating site CEO accused a hacker from Argentina…

Privacy & Security Ryan Tate

Duck! Security Experts Warn of Stuxnet “Boomerang Effect”

To many in the intelligence community (especially those who purportedly created it), the Stuxnet worm was a wildly successful cyberattack. But it was also a major failure on at least two fronts—fronts that could come back to haunt us. Cyberfail The first of these failures, as outlined in a report from ABC News, is that…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

You Can Now Photograph Government Buildings Without Being Shot

The next time you’re hounded by the police after trying to snap yourself a pretty little photo of the White House, show them this printed-out document from the Homeland Security department, stating you’re allowed to do so. https://gizmodo.com/are-cameras-the-new-guns-5553765 In fact, the document even says that “officers should not seize the camera or its contents, and…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Does This 3cm Souvenir Look Too Dangerous for Airport Security to You?

You’ve really got to feel for the Lloyds of Canada, who tried flying back home from Britain with this army-base souvenir tucked into their carry-on luggage, only to be told it was a “firearm,” and not allowed on the plane. When it set off the security alarms at Gatwick airport, south of London, airport staff…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Tons of Computers Still Infected With Conficker Worm, Apparently

Remember the great Conficker scare of 2008? Well although the botnet malware hasn’t done anything since beginning its infection rampage, the worm is still active on millions of computers, and could be ordered into action at any point. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-a-brainy-worm-might-jack-the-worlds-p-5183751 According to the International Business Times, Conficker still tries connecting to a series of IP addresses…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

Airport Security Decides 3-Inch Toy Gun Is a Weapon

This itty bitty plastic rifle was recently declared a “firearm” by airport security officials at Gatwick Airport. Which I guess makes the toy soldier it had been attached to an enemy combatant? Ken Lloyd and his wife were transporting the figurine across country lines after having purchased it at the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

Old Lady Tries to Smuggle 44 iPhone 4s Through Airport Security in Her Stockings

Last week, at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, security officials stopped a 60-year-old woman who had been moving erratically through airport security. She said she was feeling sick. Not true! She actually had 44 iPhone 4s stuffed down her pants. According to Israel-based Hareetz: Last week’s would-be smartphone smuggler was reportedly dressed in a traditional Georgian…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Mark Zuckerberg’s Identity Was Hacked on Facebook

Writing on his own Facebook fan page, Mark Zuckerberg today proposed that he forsake all riches for social good. Uh, sure. Naturally, such a declaration did not really come from the world’s youngest billionaire; Zuckerberg just got hacked. The message, apparently posted under the Facebook CEO’s own account ID (see image below), read, Let the…

Social Media Ryan Tate

How a Country Tried to Steal Its Citizens’ Facebook Passwords

Sometime this last Christmas, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan noticed strange things happening in Tunisia. Thanks to The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal we now know what those strange things were: A country’s terrifying attempt to steal its citizens’ Facebook passwords. The reason for the mass password theft appears to be censorship. Tunisian citizens, bloggers, and…

Social Media Rosa Golijan

Apple’s New Head of Global Security is a “Naval Warfare Information Expert”

With a title like “Director of Global Security” and a background in Naval information warfare and network vulnerability analysis, it seems like new Apple employee David Rice would be helping to guard secrets. But that might not be the case. More than anything else, All Things D is guessing that Rice is coming to 1…

Tech News Adrian Covert

32 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life

For every freedom and convenience we enjoy in our digital lives, there are countless cyber do-badders looking for ways to exploit them. Fight back with these 32 ways to protect your digital life! Call us cynical or hard-edged, but we frankly believe that the world is filled with hustlers, grifters, and crooks out to bamboozle…

Privacy & Security MaximumPC

Undercover TSA Agent Slips Mysterious Package onto JetBlue Flight with $100 Bribe

The airport is turning on itself! A TSA agent, usually the scourge of news headlines, is actually on the good guy side of this one—exposing a frightening hole in JetBlue’s security practices. A giant, dangerous, very cheap hole. An undercover TSA operative, posing as a completely unknown person (sans ticket) was able to get an…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Hackers Who Discovered AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested and Charged

U.S. Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer, the two Goatse Security members who exposed a serious security flaw in AT&T’s iPad subscriber database last summer. Serves them right, I guess? http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed As is often the case with these sorts of things, for better or worse, the two individuals who discovered…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Facility Splits Time as Cyberweapon Testing Ground

Stuxnet, the complex computer worm that nearly crippled Iran’s still-functioning nuclear program, didn’t just sprout from the ether. It was created, by Man, and was probably tested in Israel at the massive (and oft-unacknowledged) Dimona nuclear facility. Previously, Dimona was the center of Israel’s super secret nuclear arms program. Located in the Negev desert, it…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

How Long It Takes Hackers to Crack Your Password

Fake Emails From The White House Tricked UK Government Staff

NASDAQ Confirms Hack—Company Director Chat Service Compromised

NASDAQ Stock Market Computers Compromised Repeatedly During Last Year

No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam’s Floodgates and Kill Thousands

The TSA’s New Body Scanners Spot Bombs, Not Dongs

Dating Website Leak Results in Call to Hacker’s Mom

Duck! Security Experts Warn of Stuxnet “Boomerang Effect”

You Can Now Photograph Government Buildings Without Being Shot

Does This 3cm Souvenir Look Too Dangerous for Airport Security to You?

Tons of Computers Still Infected With Conficker Worm, Apparently

Airport Security Decides 3-Inch Toy Gun Is a Weapon

Old Lady Tries to Smuggle 44 iPhone 4s Through Airport Security in Her Stockings

Mark Zuckerberg’s Identity Was Hacked on Facebook

How a Country Tried to Steal Its Citizens’ Facebook Passwords

Apple’s New Head of Global Security is a “Naval Warfare Information Expert”

32 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life

Undercover TSA Agent Slips Mysterious Package onto JetBlue Flight with $100 Bribe

Hackers Who Discovered AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested and Charged

Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Facility Splits Time as Cyberweapon Testing Ground

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