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Security News for the Week Ending November 26, 2021

Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]

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Mandatory Password Changes – A Good Idea?

For a decade the feds recommended frequent password changes. A couple of years ago NIST changed their mind and said it was the worst recommendation they ever made. Still a lot of companies and regulators require frequent password changes. Is that a good idea? Microsoft used to recommend frequent password changes. Their current guidance: According […]

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Facebook Stored Millions (Billions?) of Passwords Unencrypted for Years

Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break.  Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]

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