We are slightly better off than the States because of our more widespread use of "Chip and PIN" technology. Some of you may be aware of the data breaches in both the United States and Canada. Big names like Target and Home Depot breaches crossed from the states to our backyard. Home Depot for the most part is at least working on damage control by offering free credit monitoring for a year. As a side note, if you did use a credit card or bank card at Home Depot, I would highly recommend you check this out: Home Depot Statement. There is instructions on how to get the free credit monitoring for a year. Most people that I talk too want to know: How does this happen? The … [Read more...]
Why it is important to change default passwords
Ah yes, the default password. As some of you may know, almost every device from a printer, to a router to an ATM, has some form of default username and password. Sometimes people don't realize that they can change their passwords. Others don't realize that some devices (like routers) can be reset if someone has physical access to it. Its critical that when you get a device with a default username and password, that you change the password, at minimum. If you can, also change the username as well. What you don't want is someone coming along and downloading a manual, getting the default username and password, then simply logging in.. Funny thing, was that BMO recently … [Read more...]
Today people are having “Heart Attacks” over the “Heartbeat” in OpenSSL.
[Update: April 9, 2014] - It seems even the Canadian Federal Government is vulnerable.. As we stated yesterday, we fully expect that the next few days will see some major announcements similar to this. The fallout from this very large vulnerability will continue for a long while to come. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/revenue-canada-shuts-website-to-head-off-heartbleed-bug-1.2603742 Original Article: So today, is not a good day to be in the IT Security industry. OpenSSL, a massive player in the security of a large number of sites on the internet has a problem. A bug was discovered where effectively usernames and passwords that were thought to be secure and private, were not. There … [Read more...]
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