Summertime and travel are around the corner! Please be reminded to safeguard your devices and information stored thereon when traveling. Remember that your mobile devices are personal computers and should be secured and safeguarded as such. For recommendations, please see the following blog post entitled Information Security Tips for Travel. The following are some supplemental […]
There has been a noted general uptick in social engineering attacks, which are designed to manipulate individuals into taking an action, such as divulging confidential or sensitive information. These attacks commonly take the form of phishing (attacks via email), smishing (attacks via text message) and vishing (attacks via phone). Common tactics include crafting messages that […]
In the following blog post from last week, https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/keeping-your-account-secure.html, Twitter disclosed that due to a bug, user passwords were inadvertently stored as plain text in an internal log. Passwords stored in plaintext are unmasked, so in this instance they were visible to Twitter employees vs. masked via a hashing process. Twitter states that they have […]