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Password changes – how to keep track of passwords

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The Onion gives a joking reference as to how some choose their passwords.  Putting your livelihood in the ability of hackers to guess your favorite TV show is funny. Some in the security industry recommend passwords to be built with lots of special characters 8 digits long, upper and lower characters, even as that method … Read more

IOSCO predicts cyber space attack coming

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The Financial Times discusses a potential “Black Swan” event.  International Organisation of Securities Commissions = IOSCO A Black Swan event definition: A “Black Swan” is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: it is unpredictable;it carries a massive impact; and after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random an … Read more

Fake USB drive infects Mac and uploads files

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Article at Quora.com Outlines a script called rubber ducky that infects a Mac computer and then uploads your documents directory to wherever the script tells it to. They have tested this  concept with a couple of scripts and methods. This means as we have mentioned before, One should be especially careful with plugging in unknown … Read more

The Psychology of security

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Why do we continue to live with the situation that we have? Why are we willing to live with risks?   It has been shown from the ever capable Bruce Schneier youtube and his blog posts Humanity is risk averse when it comes to gains and risk seeking when it comes to losses. Here is a … Read more

UPS reveals 51 stores hit by malware

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UPS security incident release   2 locations in Illinois, but not near the Saint Louis area. 2033 North Milwaukee Avenue Riverwoods IL 60015 07.01.2014 08.11.2014 276 East Deerpath Road Lake Forest IL 60045 03.26.2014 08.11.2014 Also the press release says that the malware was removed by Aug 11th.