Wired recently published an article about the discovery of a database containing 809 million total records exposed online. The MongoDB (freely available to hackers for some time now) contains 150 gigabytes of plain-text marketing data, including 763 unique email addresses. These days it seems…

Every year, Splash Data reveals its list of the year’s most commonly used passwords. This year the usual suspects, like “123456” and “password”, are, again at the top of the list. I had to grin that “starwars” has made its way to the list…

Things are tough enough these days, and now we need to spend a lot more time and effort dealing with identity theft. By far, the best thing I’ve read about the Equifax mess was by Rich Mogull over at TidBITS. The post doesn’t have…

Depending on who you believe, hackers have either compromised 600 million iCloud accounts or they have just a few and are trying shake Apple down for $150,000. Sometimes, humans are the worst.  Either way, either today (or this weekend) would be a great time…

Yesterday Wikileaks barfed up another pile of alleged confidential data, this time from the CIA. Setting aside the separate conversation about exactly who Wikileaks works for these days, I do believe the CIA, NSA, and intelligence agencies of every other country in the world…

I’m a little late with this story but thought it worth sharing anyway. Yahoo announced last week that they had another security breach (in addition to the 500 million hacked accounts earlier this year). This newly disclosed breach, which happened in 2013, involved 1…

If you are going to be on the road this Thanksgiving visiting your muggle relatives, that would be an excellent time to do them a favor and enable OpenDNS. It is ridiculously easy and I’d bet your hosts will be really thankful if you can…

It looks like they got customer names and encrypted passwords. I feel for Adobe. With a big database like that, how can you truly keep it safe with hackers always probing for another way in. It takes just one chink in the armor.  Did…