Password Complexity: Why It Makes a Difference in a Breach

By: Joel Carleton, CSID Director of Cyber Engineering We’ve all heard that it’s important to pick long, complicated passwords. What you may not realize is why this becomes crucial in the context of a breach. While ensuring you don’t pick from some of the most common passwords is important, it’s still not enough.  Some background information on [...]

The Changing Landscape of Spam
October 19, 2011 | , , , | Leave a Comment

PC Mag recently published an infographic that visualizes a study by Commtouch about “The State of Hacked Accounts.” Commtouch collected data from email users who have had their email accounts hacked to draw conclusions about email security and the motives of email hackers. Findings: The study found that two-thirds of hacked email accounts are used [...]