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12 Mar 2008New way of entering online passwords for brokerage houses
I just heard on the Clark Howard radio show that online brokerage firms are moving towards Web authentication technologies that require you to enter your password with your mouse. This is presumably to help keep the bad guys from gleaning your login credentials using keystroke loggers.I hear about this all the time - especially in the brokerage industry - where the bad guys capture your user name and password (off ...
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06 Feb 2008
Be careful co-mingling passwords
With all things being electronic today and us having to manage a hundred different computer accounts between home and work, here's one of those 'haven't thought of before' security issues that can come back and bite hard when the opportunity arises.First, have one set of common passwords you use for business purposes...You know - the account password(s) you use on the network, email, local computer, PGP, your HR portal - ...
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21 Mar 2026The biggest AI risk in your company has a corner office
We spend a lot of time worrying about employees clicking email links and reusing passwords. Both are valid concerns in our new world of AI. But this approach misses a larger (and more shocking) reality. The single biggest AI-related risk in most organizations is at the help desk or buried somewhere in accounting or IT. It’s sitting in the C-suite, operating with authority and speed, with little to no friction. ...
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04 Mar 2026The Epstein Files and the email footer that changed nothing
"Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich and unnatural viands and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he ...
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27 Oct 2025Doing the Hard Things (in security, and in life)
Everything is easy, until it's not... When you start a new relationship, everything feels easy. It’s exciting. It’s fresh. You want to impress. You like being impressed. You want to explore. Every day feels like a new adventure. But then reality sets in. The fun stuff gives way to routine, and routine takes work. You start learning nuances and dynamics. You have to show up. You have to communicate. You ...
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19 Jul 2025What do truckers in the inside lanes, the Georgia State Patrol, and infosec policies have in common?
Security policies are garbage unless someone actually enforces them. They exist to tick boxes, impress auditors, and give leadership a warm-and-fuzzy about “doing security.” But when nobody lives by them, they’re nothing but paperwork liabilities. Certainly not the safeguards many assume them to be. They're certainly not worth the paper on which they're printed, or the storage space they're occupying on the network. Security policies can be bad for business ...
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05 Apr 2024Find at-risk internal user accounts with myNetWatchman’s AD Credential Audit tool
I'm always on the lookout for new tools that can do new and interesting things for those of us working in information security. They are few and far between, it seems, at least in the context of vulnerability and penetration testing. However, I've found one that can pay huge dividends. It's called AD Credential Audit (formerly known as Active Directory Audit) by threat intelligence company, myNetWatchman. You know how threat ...
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20 Jun 2021The 21 Best Ways to Lose Your Information, revisited
With all the crazy incidents and breaches brought about by so many unfortunate "glitches" combined with how I continually harp on the importance of mastering the information security basics, I thought it'd be appropriate to re-post the content of an article I wrote for Computerworld back in 2002... This piece was the second article I ever wrote. Little did I know that, nearly two decades later, every single one of ...
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15 Apr 2020Security awareness/training and security policy tips for tough times
It's a tired subject at this point. Still, I still wanted to share some pieces that I've written on security awareness/training and security policies over the years that your business might benefit from to help get (keep) your arms around your remote workforce and overall information security program...no need to buy anything or hire anyone to help. The following are all you need to get rolling and/or fine-tune: Security Awareness ...
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04 Jun 2019Here’s a BIG mobile security exposure you may be overlooking
With security, if your goal is to minimize your maximum regret, there's a lot to be thinking about. User behaviors involving mobile devices are at the heart of some of the larger business risks, especially if you're like the majority of businesses I see and support bring your own device (BYOD) For phones and tablets. Well, here's something that you may have thought about in passing but haven't done anything ...
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