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The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers

Daniel Miessler

And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. As far as they’re concerned, if you don’t say the name of your password manager 7 times before bed the Dark Web will haunt your closet. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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‘Every day is game day:’ Sports psychology expert applies his skills to cybersecurity

SC Magazine

He would later return to school in 2012, earning a master’s degree in psychology and certificate in sports psychology. How do you coach athletes or infosec experts to handle pressurized situations? You were coaching in the Giants organization when they won the three World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014. My password is terrible!”

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.