After taking some time off I am returning to my discussion board on Network Security and the events, happenings, problems and tracking.
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Username’s and Password’s don’t work & making them longer is a pain
Either it has happened to you or you don’t know it has happened to you. Your email is spamming your address book without your knowledge. Your Facebook page and messages seem to be available to others to edit or steal those personal pictures. Your company is freaking out as someone breached the network.
The last mentioned situation is one that most people feel is not ...
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MAR
MAR
Easy Passwords are still being used. Botnet’s love it!!!
People never seem to ever learn. We all know about the hacks that allow others to get our usernames and passwords, yet, due to laziness or lack of care, people continue to use weal and common passwords that say “Steal me”, “Hack Me – Let me make it easy” or ” Please take my private information”
We are all busy and prefer not to have to remember so ...
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JAN
Russians did some underground magic for themselves and attacked the unclassified Pentagon email system that is used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was pulled online on July 25th.
It appears the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s unclassified email network was taken down because of activity that was suspicious. The Pentagon email network is used by over 4,000 military and civilian personnel who work for the Joint Chiefs. The attack from the Russian hackers was done through social media channels.
Officials are not clear if the ...
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