If you missed the conversation on should Real Estate Agents care about the Apple FBI Controversy on Friday evening, here is a quick summary and the recording. This is a delicate topic on how far is too far but what I take from it is that we should all be doing as much as possible to protect our clients data. …
Heartbleed
Heartbleed Following the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL Cryptography library, a fixed version of OpenSSL was released on the 7 April 2014. What is OpenSSL? Open SSL is an open version of the SSL and TLS protocol that was founded in 1998 to provide a free set of encryption tools code on the internet. It is believed to be …
TechRadar site compromised
This should come as no surprise as everyone is vulnerable now days. But TechRadar has announced that all registrations, commenting and log-ins have been disabled whilst they investigate a security compromise. if you have an account over there please keep your eyes open for further news. Of course you don’t need to go rushing off changing your password everywhere because you don’t use the …
Yahoo has 450,000 Usernames and Passwords stolen
Yahoo has admitted that around 450,000 plain text user names and passwords were stolen by attackers identifying themselves as ‘D333Ds’ Yahoo’s statement – ‘We confirm that an older file from Yahoo! Contributor Network, previously Associated Content, containing approximately 450,000 Yahoo! and other company usernames and passwords was compromised yesterday, July 11,’ This reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday with …