A Strong Password: A Hard Nut to Crack

In a recent article “The Great Bank Heist,” I touched on the topic of strong passwords and the need for them. After completing that article I walked away and thought stronger passwords are worth taking a deeper look at and felt compelled to write an article about it. So here it goes…

The Great Bank Heist

 

Typically bank heists are conducted with men wearing all black, ski masks and someone sitting in a van outside ready for a quick getaway. Perhaps that is too old school for a sophisticated group of hackers who just pulled of the biggest bank heist in history, pulling in a billion (yes that is billion with a ‘b’) dollar haul. They carried out this robbery in quite the opposite fashion of the aforementioned style of heist, working remotely and using computers to steal the money. 

The Future of Warfare

“… The next Pearl Harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber-attack”

-Leon Panetta, Former CIA Director

This statement could not be truer, look at everything in this world, it is all going online. Movies, schooling, shopping, books, and more are all now online. It is almost like we never need to leave the house, heck you can even work from home if you land the right job. So why wouldn’t everything turn cyber?

Top 5 Solutions to Stop Hackers

And when I say hackers, I want to be clear. I mean the security crackers that break into your account to steal your information, max out your credit card, and wreak havoc on your computer or device! This is not how you intended things to end when you chose that password that you could remember or ignored Gmail’s new second factor feature. But, now it is too late. Unless you have a Tardis, you are not changing the fact that your email or other personal accounts have been compromised.

Your Phone: Potentially Your Greatest Enemy

Cell phones . . . They have become one of the greatest tools that we use daily. Even if you are against the whole smart phone thing, chances are you have a phone that receives phone calls at the very least. Cell phones have become a way of life, and with the increase in the use of smart phones comes the increase in possible attacks on your personal data.

Hood or Hacker: The Robin Hood Story

“He stole from the rich to give to the poor.” We know the line well, the quintessential line that describes the legend of the famed or infamous (depending on which side you were on), Robin Hood. Robin Hood is a mystery to us all, and there are many versions of the Sherwood Forrest living outlaw. Some say he was an aristocrat turned peoples hero; others say he was an outlawed Yeoman that made a living off of stealing from the rich, led a faithful following of other outlaws, and married the beautiful Maid Marian. It is legends like these that we want to believe are real, that somehow Robin Hood actually existed, and those in corrupted power exposed. The truth is, we don’t always know the full story behind the legend or have all the facts. It is, after all, only legend.

By now, I am sure you know where I am going with this. I am not here to condone breaking the law, but I am here to pose to you that we must look at the facts.

Did you know Sony Pictures was Hacked?

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past month, you know that Sony Pictures was hacked, not just a little . . . They were hacked a lot! Now as a movie goer, blogger, and hacking nut, I was not surprised that Sony got hacked. Companies get hacked all the time; heck, the US Government gets hacked a lot too. But the Sony hacking was much more than meets the eye.