To be fair, this test was based on choosing PINs from among a list of 50 random PINs. The researchers collected a pool of data for 500 test PINs and used that along with the data collected from the test cases to guess the PIN used almost 100% of the time, on the first guess. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky’s anti-virus software has been banned from being used by the Federal government mostly because an NSA software developer went “off the reservation”, took some classified software home and loaded it on a personally owned PC running Kaspersky’s AV software configured by the developer to share potentially malicious software with Kaspersky, thereby compromising an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Splashdata, who makes password management software, releases a list of the top compromised passwords. They did this by collecting five million compromised passwords and analyzing them. The top password this year is, again, 123456 . The number two password is, yes, password . Number three is 12345678 . You can read the article to get all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: What do you do if you are a company who’s software is buggy and who is outed by a well respected journalist – Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin. One approach would be to apologize. Keeper Software’s idea is to sue the journalist for false and misleading statements. The alternative would be to sue the researcher, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
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