Top 10 Popular Passwords

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

If you want to be stylish and liked, go with what’s popular. But if you want security, using the most popular passwords are a sure way to leave hackers an easy way into your accounts. Apparently, a whopping 20% of people use some variant of the following 10 password choices, ...

Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service. System administrators at universities and some companies have reported ...

Bots Use SQL Injection Tool in New Web Attack

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites. The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...

Ubuntu Linux: 5 Steps for resetting a forgotten password

Monday, May 12th, 2008

It happens to everyone. You have so many usernames and passwords that you can't remember them all. Fortunately, Facebook, Gmail, and about a billion other online services have a "forgot password" link. Just click it and the web service will either email your password to you or allow you to ...

Phishing Campaign Targets Tax Rebate Checks

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday issued a warning about a phishing campaign designed to steal personal information from consumers using the promise of a tax rebate check as bait.IC3 is jointly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau ...