Establish policies that require regular updates of antivirus software, and require workers to use password protection systems.
Along with boosts in speed and thoroughness of its password guessing, Marlinspike says CloudCracker will now also offer APIs that mean developers could build applications that use its password cracking resources within other programs, or even on mobile devices with an Android or iPhone app.
FORBES: Moxie Marlinspike's CloudCracker Aims For Speedier, Cheaper Password Cracking
Never use a password from one of your sensitive e-mail, banking or portfolio accounts.
But the other problem with online shopping is that virtually every site asks you to use a password.
FORBES: Common Sense Ways To Keep Your Privacy Secure Over The Holidays
It has been just over a year since a glitch briefly let people use any password they wanted to s ign into any Dropbox user's account.
Chances are we use the same password for our Google Buzz account that we use for the corporate Active Directory login and for Salesforce.com.
FORBES: Social Media: A Nightmare For Enterprise IT Security?
But password laxity imposes costs even on sites with good security, since people often use the same password for several different places.
Especially because people have a tendency to use the same password over and over again.
FORBES: Common Sense Ways To Keep Your Privacy Secure Over The Holidays
Use a strong password which includes a combination of upper and lowercase letters and numbers.
Oh, and you should also use a different password at every site.
Seven years ago Microsoft floated a similar-sounding scheme called Passport that granted users access to any site that agreed to use the same password system.
Gawker has written a pretty big check here, compromising the FTP accounts given to them by other companies, as well as any of their users who use the same password on multiple web sites.
"Of course, even with this new security option turned on, it's still important for you to use a strong password and follow the rest of our advice for keeping your account secure, " he wrote.
In the future, it may also offer an API that allows firms to check leaked usernames from other domains, too, a trick that would avoid security breaches resulting from victims who use the same password or other credentials across multiple sites.
FORBES: With 12 Million Hacked Users' Data, Pwned List Launches As A Breach Monitoring Service
If you use a wireless router, password protect it and enable the encryption to scramble the data you send online.
Since many people use variations on the same password across various sites, this could prove to be an annoyance to the 1.3 million people with Gawker accounts.
But more than 10, 000 Web sites now recognize a service called Facebook Connect, which enables users to use their Facebook ID and password to move fluidly among sites where registration is required.
That they have not hired the right leadership for security, implemented the right program, and then taken the correct tactical steps (for Gawker: exercising an incident response plan, implementing password complexity and use requirements, having an intrusion management strategy, having a data breach plan) in the context of an overall information security strategy.
After the five seconds it takes to download Waddle and set up a username and password, you can use the app to share a photo and message to a group of your choosing.
The final layers of security include a pair of authentication certificates residing on the handsets, as well as requiring users to log-in with a password before they can use the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server.
FORBES: Connecting marketers to the Forbes audience. What is this?
But Passport, which stores personal information on Microsoft's servers, still lets customers use wildly insecure passwords like "password, " and lets anyone who knows your zip code take several cracks at guessing the personal "secret question" that resets the password.
The second study, commissioned by Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and the National Cyber Security Alliance, also shows that more than 60% of employees sometimes use mobile devices without encrypted or password-protected data to connect to their work's network, and more than a third sometimes work by piggybacking on strangers' wireless Internet connections.
So, whether or not you knew about that tiny shake or jitter in your hand, you may soon make use of it to replace that old password scribbled on that aging yellow sticky note.
FORBES: Could That Shake in Your Hand Replace Your Password? Leap Motion Thinks So
Identity thieves can use the information you post to guess your password.
Now they are increasing their focus on technology consumers can use to make purchases by simply entering a password or other easy-to-remember information on an e-commerce website, or by tapping a smartphone against a merchant payment terminal instead of swiping a physical card.
People should change their password on any other site where they use it, she added.
Earlier this year we wrote about password-management tools that let you use encrypted passwords to prevent strangers from accessing your data.
Having a plethora of logins with differing password strengths, the frequent re-use of passwords, etc. clearly leads to security and risk issues.
FORBES: Identity: the Intersection of Cloud, Mobile and Social
According to a court document filed by Twin Capital, the hedge fund firm purchased the computer for Simon to use at his home and only he knew the password.
FORBES: New York Hedge Fund Manager Claims His Wife Hacked His Computer And Stole Trading Secrets
First, of course, it must be password protected to avoid fraud and to encourage greater use this technology.
应用推荐