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Your Password is Obsolete
Following on from my blog article Logging on is becoming too hard to do securely here is a good info graphic about the state of passwords:
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Test Your Password Here – Or Maybe Don’t
Is the tweet below good advice from @GetSafeOnline? Are your #passwords strong and secure? Test them here http://t.co/nWrzVP12JO — GetSafeOnline.org (@GetSafeOnline) June 18, 2013 I dutifully (and...
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Heartbleed hype – Password killer
There are a huge number of news items, tweets and posts running around the Internet at the moment. I don’t pretend to know the details about Heartbleed, but I do not some of the expert opinion offered...
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Heartbleed: Biometrics are not the answer
Following on from Heartbleed, there have been poorly judged calls from many to change all your passwords. Quite rightly many are using this to say we have to do better than passwords. However, I heard...
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Changing 40+ Passwords: Thanks Heartbleed
Following the Heartbleed revelations, the security advice from the great and good was to change all passwords. To support World Password Day, I changed over 40 other them – quite an interesting...
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Changing 40+ Passwords: Annoyances
In the first part of this blog series, I looked at the process of changing and remembering 40+ passwords. In this part, I recount a few of the annoyances I uncovered… Microsoft Office 365 comes in two...
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Changing 40+ Passwords: Alarm bells
Previously in this blog series, I looked at the process of changing and remembering 40+ passwords and recounted a few of the annoyances. In this final part, I document a big concern – in some cases...
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Security and Convenience: Natural Enemies or Strange Bedfellows?
I last blogged about Talk*InfoSec which happened on May 29th. I mentioned that in the panel discussion, two common themes arose: one about companies still not taking Cyber Security seriously, and one...
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Virgin Media’s Super Hub breaks if you use a long password
While changing all my passwords, I decided to change my Virgin Media Super Hub password. Wish I hadn’t… I choose one 17 characters long – the router was quite happy to let me make the change. When I...
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Changing 40+ Passwords: Supplementary
In a previous blog series, I described my fun, games and gripes at changing 40+ passwords. Soon after the blog was posted, it struck me – there are yet more to change… As described, I used two factor...
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The Day the Technology and Entertainment News Headlines Were the Same:...
You will no doubt have seen by now the news that naughty photos of celebrities have appeared on the internet. It’s the story that has everything – cyber security, the dangers of the cloud, online...
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The 12 Themes of 2014
Rather than bring you the 12 Days of Christmas, we’ve done the 12 themes of 2014 instead! A look back at what has been making the headlines in the world of Information Security (and beyond) this year....
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Independent Factors
Two-factor authentication and two-step verification are different things. They are remarkably similar in concept, the difference being the trust model. In any security system, trust is a crucial...
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Home Router Password Failure
Good security advice is you should (must) change the default password on your home broadband router. Recent experience suggests to me this is not sufficient. As you would expect, when my new router...
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Biometrics do not solve password problems
One year on from the Heartbleed episode, we see more and more reports of passwords being stolen. Every time it happens some commentator or vendors will come forward and say biometrics are the answer....
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Two-Factor Authentication Phishing
I’ve not blogged on two-factor authentication for a while – the roll out among major providers is encouraging – Come on Amazon and Virgin Media, it’s about time you stepped up. I was prompted to return...
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Phishing Nets
Phishing is one of the most common forms of cyber-attack at the current time. Effectively attackers try and fool you to providing sensitive data such as user names and password into fake web sites....
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Cyber Matters Top 10 posts from 2015
As 2016 approaches, I thought it would be nice to look back on 2015 and share with you the Top 10 most viewed blog posts here on Cyber Matters. Let the countdown begin … 10. Booting Linux Securely 9....
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Why is my Password Too Long?
Dear Virgin Media I recently decided it was time to change my password on my NTLWorld email account (managed by Virgin Media). I entered a new password only to be told “Password too long”. How long...
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How a strong BYOD password can make identity theft easier
I regularly take a train journey into London, it takes about an hour an a half. During this time I learn a great deal from reading, not books, but the laptop of the person sitting next to me. This is...
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Revelations of a Password Reset
I recently had to reset my password on a Internet service I use. As usual, the process asked me for my email address, and said it would duly send me an email with reset instructions. No problem there....
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We cannot let passwords die (yet)
I’m getting fed up with marketing that says “Passwords must die” only to present yet another solution that won’t replace them. The challenge to solve is ubiquity – this is why passwords have stood the...
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Top cyber crime threats to East Midlands businesses
I recently attended the East Midlands Cyber Crime Breakfast, where a panel of experts outlined what they saw as the principal cyber crime threats that were affecting organisations in the East Midlands....
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How can firms protect themselves from ransomware?
In a previous blog post I wrote about the rise of ransomware over the last year. In this post I will briefly outline what steps organisations should take to avoid becoming the next victim of...
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Payment Services Directive
So, Tesco was hacked. Although there is no official word yet on how this happened, the chatter among people far smarter than me are suggesting the issue is related to passwords and the Tesco Club card....
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