Posts Tagged Under: password security

Kaspersky: When You Get Hacked, The First Wise Thing To Do Is Pray

At this year’s WHD.global – the world’s biggest event for the hosting community – revered figures in the tech industry booked some stage time to discuss the latest trends, including ever-pressing matters like security.

Keen to hop on the WHD bandwagon with an eye on today’s networked world was none other than Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of the namesake security company whose antivirus software runs on millions of computers worldwide.

The Russian malware crusader kicked off his video-streamed talk noting that traditional crime is moving into the cyberspace, while established cyber-criminals are getting much better at what they do. In short, malware is on the rise. Hardly a surprise since malware is always on the rise. The more interesting disclosures were yet to come.

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Passwords Must Go

Late last year, mobile software vendor SplashData crowned “123456” as the most popular password used on the Internet. It even beat the not-so-cunning “PASSWORD,” becoming the weakest one used in 2014.

Not surprisingly, an uptick in ID theft and account breaches was also registered in last year. One particularly interesting episode we can all recall was a widely publicized celebrity nude leak.

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