Passwords and PINs: the worst choices
Written by v2r on June 7, 2012 – 11:52 am -At a time when password breaches like the one at LinkedIn are once more making the news, there's plenty of good advice around about how to select a strong password as opposed to the sort of stereotyped easy-to-remember-but-stupendously-easy-to-guess password that turns up again and again in dumped lists of hacked pass...
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AV Testing, AMTSO and EICAR
Written by v2r on May 16, 2012 – 8:48 am -Back in 2008, EICAR rejected a paper proposed by Andrew Lee and myself discussing the state of anti-malware testing and how it might be improved, on the grounds that it was “advertising” the fledgling AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) initiative. You can decide for yourselves whether that criticism was...
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Passwords, passphrases, and big numbers: first the good news…
Written by v2r on January 17, 2012 – 9:56 am -Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some wondered why we were still discussing and promoting password strategies when there were (and are) better alte...
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Passwords, passphrases, and big numbers: first the good news…
Written by v2r on January 17, 2012 – 9:56 am -Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some wondered why we were still discussing and promoting password strategies when there were (and are) better alte...
READ MORE >>Tags: attack, BB, Chip and PIN, computer security, Dark Reading, David Harley, EICAR, Eleanor Dallaway, Ericka Chickowski, IBM, John Leyden, malware remove, New Year, Password, passwords, Paul Laudanski, PC, PIN, privacy, Randy Abrams, Rob Slade, ROI, virus remove, Yippee No
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Warming up for the Autumn Conferences
Written by v2r on August 15, 2011 – 1:26 pm -[Updated. Twice. ] 'Tis the season to get ready for the autumn round of security conferences. For me, it starts at the beginning of September with a small but perfectly formed Forensics conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, in the UK, where I'll be presenting on "Man, Myth, Malware and Multiscanning"...
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Blaming the Victim…
Written by v2r on July 8, 2011 – 4:45 pm -…not, on this occasion, the classic Blackhat "It's your fault that we've hacked your server, infected you with a virus, and broadcast your credit card details and gaming credentials to anyone one who cares to access the torrent" self-justification. (Which reminds me of a mugger saying "don't make me...
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