Cyber Security Today – Don’t get burned by wildfire donor pitches, domain registrars hacked, bad Android apps, password woes and more

By Howard Solomon for IT World Canada
Friday, November 1, 2019

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I often talk about the importance of having strong passwords, and having a different password for every application and device. Lots of people still aren’t getting the message. Security vendor ImmuniWeb recently did a study of 16 million usernames and passwords stolen from big companies in the past 12 months and being sold by criminals. Lots of people are still using foolish and use short passwords like “password”, “abc123”, “student” and “welcome.” By the way, those of you who think you’re being clever with a password that moves down a keyboard, like “qaz” or “wsx”, criminals have figured that out. Aside from the fact that Fortune 500 companies aren’t doing a good job of protecting their lists of customer and employee passwords, this study also shows many people still don’t get it. Companies have to do a better job of scanning the lists of customer and employee passwords and warn users to improve them. They also have to do a better job of protecting passwords from being stolen. And users have to do a better job of creating passwords. The best way is for companies and individuals is to use a password manager. Read Full Article