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More Americans say they have lost personal data

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Admin

The Pew Research Center reports that growing numbers of Americans report that they have experienced personal data loss.

Findings from a January 2014 survey show that:

  • 18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013.
  • 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey.

Read the article.

Posted in Security Breaches | Tags: Pew Research Center |

TrustedSec CEO on The Katie Show

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Admin

TrustedSec CEO on The Katie Show

TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy appeared talks to Katie Couric about how easy it is for hackers to break into your home computer.

Resources mentioned in the video:

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET)

Posted in Home computer security | Tags: cookies, emet, java, limited user account, webcam |

Two Million Passwords Stolen

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Admin

Trustwave reports that over 2 million passwords were stolen recently using keylogging software. These user names and passwords belonged to more than 93,000 web sites.

See the money.cnn.com story.

Posted in Security Breaches | Tags: stolen passwords |

Man Tosses Out Hard Drive Worth $8M

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Admin
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Protect your files with Carbonite Online BackupI can’t think of a better reason to backup your documents than this story.  Imagine suddenly realizing the hard drive your threw out a few months ago contained the private key for Bitcoin that were purchased several years ago and had since risen in value to nearly eight million USD.  Read the sad story.

Back in 2009 the crypto currency purchase was worth a significant $6,000, but today the currency is valued at more than 1,000 times as much.  He had placed the hard drive in a drawer once he thought all of the files had been swapped out to a newer drive that was replacing that one due to an issue.  A news story about a site related to BTC caused him to remember that the digital currency was still on that drive.

A visit to the garbage dump did nothing but further discourage him.  After talking to the dump manager he realized the monumental task of digging through several feet of trash that had accumulated in that time period.  After a fleeting thought of mounting a rescue mission and how monumental that would be he gave up hope.

Can you say the word backup?

 

Posted in Security News |

Email and Password Data Stolen from Adobe

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Admin

Adobe has reported that passwords, unencrypted emails and password reminder questions and answers were stolen from Adobe leaving customers wondering if other accounts will be compromised.   As we have stated time and time again people reuse passwords on most sites, so the stolen emails and questions are all that are needed to gain access to most web sites.

In many instances people write a hint to themselves that says “same as my Facebook password” or “same as my bank password.”

“The best advice is for people not to recycle the same password in multiple places,” Mr. Krebs said.

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Posted in Security Breaches | Tags: stolen emails, stolen password reminders, stolen passwords |
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