Archive for February, 2010
A recent report showed that in an analysis of 32 million passwords, 5 of the top 10 passwords were a sequence of numbers from 1 to 9 (i.e., “123456″, “12345″, “123456789″, etc.). Furthermore, studies showed that nearly half of all passwords are considered “weak” or “trivial” by most password systems (in other words, easy to [ READ MORE ]
Here is an interesting article suggesting that government cybercrime investigators are pushing for the creation of a national Web interface so internet wiretap requests can be sent and received electronically. While this certainly would make my job a lot easier, I believe the privacy that we would give up in this scenario far outweighs the [ READ MORE ]