It seems every few weeks, another organization announces a big data breach putting their customers at risk. This time it’s the largest bank in the United States. J.P. Morgan Chase announced a breach on August 27th, but initially believed the number of compromised accounts was much smaller. It wasn’t until October 2nd that they revealed 76 million… Read More »
Gmail Account Hack Shows Why Strong Passwords Are a Must
On September 9th a hacker published a list of 5 million Gmail accounts with associated passwords. The passwords may not have been the password for the account in question, and there’s no telling how old the passwords are or where they originally came from. For example, if the account came from the LinkedIn hack from… Read More »