From Mary Brown | October 8th, 2009
Robert McMillan writes about the possibilities of a robot inside your home being used as an attack point by a hacker. He suggests that it would be prudent to get ahead of the curve and learn from the past. Too often the IT industry develops technologies and then waits to see how they can be misused before actually doing something to prevent it. Do you think the IT industry has learned their collective lesson and have begun to understand the need to design with security in mind?
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From Dr. Steven Brown | October 8th, 2009
The latest large scale phishing attacks not only show that people are still somewhat vulnerable to giving up personal information — they also show that we are creatures of habit. One reason why this attack was so large was that, as creatures of habit, we use the same password for multiple accounts. Once a password is figured out, all a hacker has to do is read your PC’s cookie file. Then they know the sites you’ve been on and can try logging into those sites as well. Changing/using different passwords is not difficult. There are a number of password generating software applications that you can use to create and store your passwords in an encrypted manner.
This attack has gotten so bad that even the FBI does not bank online. Read more about the attack in the New York Times.
I don’t necessarily think you need to go this far, but there are things you can do to better protect yourself.
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