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Empower & Protect
Cybersecurity and information technology insights from Telos industry experts.
04/25/2013
DBIR Findings – Unsophisticated Attacks, Undetected for Months
While Chinese cyber espionage tends to grab the headlines, I was initially drawn to a different statistic in the DBIR: 92% of breaches are perpetuated by outsiders, who mostly rely on unsophisticated attack methods, and go largely undetected for months. Weak, stolen and compromised passwords are the “weak locking mechanism at the front door.”
10/22/2012
Don’t Just Change Your Password… Change your Password Habits
Many passwords have been divulged and analyzed over the past few years as a result of large scale breaches at RockYou, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and Gawker (to name a few). How do you keep your password strong, when hackers continue to arm themselves with knowledge of commonly used passwords and patterns?
06/11/2012
Salting Passwords
Recent high-profile security failures have put the spotlight on password security.
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