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 if chosen by the user. Allow usage of ASCII characters (including space) and Unicode characters. Check prospective passwords against a list that contains values … Read more
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 pandemic Here is text of email: Hi <insert-name>, Just wanted to check if you’ve submitted your tax refund claim yet? SETC and ERC are … Read more
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 Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. CVE-2024-38080 allows an attacker to increase their account privileges on a Windows machine. Although … Read more
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 other days, but make sure I do one today!!! Perform some stuff that you normally would not on this celebration, as well I am sure … Read more
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 an account on the system to get on the system. This happens to be an old vulnerability (as per AI response): The OpenSSH remote code … Read more
