Posted on 01 February 2013 by
Which password do you think is easier for a hacker to crack – “Th3r3 can only b3 #1!” or “Hammered asinine requirements”? According to some new research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research, it’s actually the former that is the weaker password. Why? Because the password “Th3r3 can only b3 #1!” has grammatical […]
Posted on 18 January 2013 by
The 2013 International CES is, like, so two weeks ago, right? Not only that, but as an enterprise executive, you may be thinking “that’s a consumer show, what the heck does it have to do with the enterprise?” A lot, actually. Even with 2013 CES over and done with (no one is even tweeting about […]
Posted on 28 December 2012 by
As part of our series looking at CIO views on security we are also interested in different country attitudes to IT security. As a global organization with offices worldwide, we know only too well how different nationalities and cultures bring a wealth of opinion, experience and perspectives to the table. So, let’s take a look […]
Posted on 21 December 2012 by
If you read the news as much as I do, you probably have seen a lot of advice about how to avoid having your financial details stolen this holiday season. It’s true that conducting banking transactions or shopping online does make you vulnerable to cybercriminals lurking in the background. But there are a lot of […]
Posted on 11 December 2012 by
If you work in an office or have gathered information for a project, then you’ll have used Google at some point in your life. This also means that you might be partly responsible for the most searched-for topics and keywords in Google’s search engine over the last year. Google has brought out the list of […]
Posted on 01 November 2012 by
SplashData has released its list of the 25 worst passwords of 2012, including the usual suspects: ‘password’ (again, staggeringly, at the top of the list), 123456, and abc123. The list is quite similar to the one I discussed last year, albeit with a few arbitrary additions, such as “welcome”, “jesus”, “ninja”, “mustang”, and the ever […]
