Better password policy: Complex? or longer passwords?
What is the better password policy? A longer password like NIST 800-53 says? Key NIST password guidelines Minimum length of 8 characters and maximum length of at least 64 characters…
Fake Email? or Phishing Email?
I got this email from Cathy Clarke… It claimed to be able to help me get a tax refund due to the SETC and ERC federal programs because of the…
Patch Tuesday: Zero-day Vulnerability Fixes
Yes it was Patch Tuesday July9th (yesterday). This means Krebsonsecurity had a post describing all the action: The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080, a bug in the Windows…
Happy 4th of July!! do your Backups!!
Happy 4th of July: I always do a full backup on this day – so I have at least a few backups at July 4th and Christmas. I may backup…
Openssh RCE vulnerability – Patch Now!
As Hackernews has in its posts: New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems RCE = Remote Code Execution , i.e. the hacker does not need…