by Paul Swengler | May 7, 2015 | Blog, Breach, Kill the Password, Security, Uncategorized
The first post on ‘compliance required stupidity’ addressed how using an email address as a username completely compromised one half of the security available to login set. This post will show how the password compliance requirements further enforces stupidity. In...
by Paul Swengler | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Breach, Kill the Password, Security, Uncategorized, Why
Master of Cyber Stupidity. Collectively, we have cognitive dissonance when it comes to internet security. Part is our personal responsibility but a larger portion is exacerbated by those who provide resources and set the compliance rules. To quickly example cognitive...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Breach, Security
There is a fight for information coming. It will be as if large as dinosaurs were in battle to the death. They will be fighting over you. My first wife was fond of saying: “Great minds think alike. Simple minds rarely differ.” I know she didn’t author it. But it...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
My twitter feed has recently been full of promotions for WIFI Password Hacker tool. It seemed interesting. “Free” is always a compelling argument. Also, my ‘friends’ are liking and endorsing it, so it must be good. Right? DANGER! DO NOT...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog, Breach, Kill the Password, Security
Passwords are everywhere, but are yours safe? Passwords are like sports teams; some people are passionate about them, others have favorites, some people don’t like them and others don’t care at all. But both sports teams and passwords are part of modern...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 23, 2015 | Biometrics, Blog, Kill the Password, Security, Why
Can we litigate the internet into safety? On April Fools’ day President Obama signed yet another executive order making cybercrime a federal prosecutional offense for foreign nationals. I wrote about it here: http://wp.me/p5PMQN-cB Making cybercrime a crime is...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Breach, Kill the Password, Security, Uncategorized, Why
The real cost of a breach? Its hard to tell. The Target breach originally reported to be $148 million doesn’t end. As Jennifer LeClair writes: In January, the company said the theft may also have exposed identifying information like names, addresses and e-mail...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 20, 2015 | Biometrics, Blog, Internet of Things, IoT, Kill the Password, Multi-factor Authentication, Why
Can we really kill the password? Why it is so hard. Understanding the basics of identity security isn’t nearly as difficult as some experts want us to believe. The programming can be complex, layers of encryption and length of digital strings can be enormous,...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog, Internet of Things, IoT, Kill the Password, Multi-factor Authentication, Why
Felony: Stupidity. 8th grade teen arrested and charged with felony for having a stupid teacher. A teen student accessed the computer of a teacher by using the teachers name as a password and gets felony charge. Maybe things have changed since I was a teen. It seems...
by Paul Swengler | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog, Internet of Things, Kill the Password, Uncategorized, Why
On April Fool’s day president Obama declared war on cybercrime. This may be the second, perhaps third or fourth, time he has declared war on cybercrime. Declaring war and fighting it are clearly two different items. Surely declaring war doesn’t work...
