We all have lots of Internet passwords and about half of them are not difficult to guess. Just take a look at the “500 worst passwords of all time.” A strong password should be two things: easily recalled by its owner and difficult to guess by someone who doesn’t know it. So even non-hackers can …
Category Archive: Security
Sep
01
VIRUS : Magazine ships Induc Delphi virus on cover CD ROM
According to German media reports, a popular computer magazine is on sale in the country containing a copy of the W32/Induc-A Delphi virus on its free cover CD ROM. The 18/2009 edition of ComputerBild, one of Germany’s biggest computer magazines with an estimated readership of over 4 million people, carries an infected copy of TidyFavorites …
Jul
24
SPY : Did Etisalat Spied BlackBerry Customers?
BlackBerry customers revolt after spyware scandal If your customers think that you tried to spy on them, that’s not going to be good for business. 23 July 2009 http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/23/blackberry-customers-revolt-after-spyware-scandal/ That’s the message that’s presumably being heard loud-and-clear by telecoms company Etisalat, which has found itself in the middle of a storm of negative headlines after …