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Improve your security #9: create good passwords

08

Jun

2012

I never thought that I am going to write this post after publishing the two other Improve your security articles about passwords: #8: change the default passwords and #1: complex passwords aren’t always better But, here we are, after seeing three major websites (LinkedIn, LastFM, eHarmony) which got somehow (yes, somehow, because we still don’t […]

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Improve your security #8 – change the default passwords

27

Apr

2012

Very often people buy new gadgets or devices which because they are “secured” out of the box. Or, better said, this is what the producers write on their boxes, because the reality is quite different. These devices are delivered most of the time with default passwords like “0000″, “admin”, “1234″ and so on. This is […]

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A Hidden Security Threat: Beware the Office Multifunction Printer

03

Sep

2011

Cybercriminals are always looking for easy ways to break into your network, whether at work or at home. In a talk at this summer’s DefCon 19 conference, security researcher Deral Heiland demonstrated various ways to compromise Internet-ready consumer-grade multifunction printers. These include printers that can scan to a file, scan to email, and fax documents, […]

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