World Password Day advice, your car’s infotainment system may be a privacy risk, a new hacker discovered and more security updates.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, May 5 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Tomorrow is World Password Day. It’s to remind people how to pick safer passwords, and how to protect them. Regular listeners may recall that Dinah Davis and I talked about this on the Week In Review show. Briefly, our advice boils down to this: Use a password manager so you don’t have to remember passwords, use multifactor authentication as extra protection against password theft, and chose safe passwords or passphrases. This week a number of security vendors are also issuing advice. Digital Guardian urges people not to share passwords with anyone – that includes room-mates, best friends and lovers. Parents, teach that to your kids. Don’t use easily guessed personal information like your name, birth
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World Password Day advice, your car’s infotainment system may be a privacy risk, a new hacker discovered and more security updates.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, May 5 I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Tomorrow is World Password Day. It’s to remind people how to pick safer passwords, and how to protect them. Regular listeners may recall that Dinah Davis and I talked about this on the Week In Review show. Briefly, our advice boils down to this: Use a password manager so you don’t have to remember passwords, use multifactor authentication as extra protection against password theft, and chose safe passwords or passphrases. This week a number of security vendors are also issuing advice. Digital Guardian urges people not to share passwords with anyone – that includes room-mates, best friends and lovers. Parents, teach that to your kids. Don’t use easily guessed personal inform
Jesse Hill never forgot the reception he got after he returned from serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
“It still hurts,” said the Middletown resident in 2015. “Most of us were volunteers and to come home and be spit on.”
Hill spent decades making sure no other returning U.S. Army veteran ever again experienced the same kind of disrespect.
Hill, 72, who died April 28, founded the Bristol Township based Delaware Valley Vietnam Veterans and served as its treasurer for more than 30 years.
He was the organizing force for annual Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day events to remember those killed or missing-in-action during the Vietnam War. He helped volunteers plant more than 60,000 American flags each year at the annual Flag Day memorial in June.
A Linux alert, negligent executives and another warning to QNAP users.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, April 30. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Security professionals with Linux systems in their infrastructure should start looking for evidence their servers have been compromised. This is because a company called 360 Netlab has discovered a piece of malware that creates a backdoor into 64-bit Linux systems. It may have been around for at least the last three years. The malware, dubbed RotaJakiro, is capable of stealing data. It uses a lot of tricks, including multiple encryption algorithms, to hide.