All the website breaches and endless warnings about the use of weak passwords finally soaked in and resulted in a change to the most commonly-used and worst password on the Internet, which was “password”. But before you get too excited about netizens embracing better cybersecurity habits, know that “123456” is #1 and “password” fell to #2 on the list of top 25 worst passwords of 2013.
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Obad was the nastiest piece of Android malware discovered in 2013
Android Authority Not only is it the most sophisticated piece of Android malware this year, but it is the first Trojan to be spread by mobile botnets that were created using different malware. Google has patched the bug that allows Obad to hide in the Device Admins list … |
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Most read tech stories of 2013 – Irish coders, Android and a new era in TV viewing
Siliconrepublic.com A major brute force attack against blogging site WordPress took place during the year, involving a giant botnet that commanded up to 90,000 servers in the attack. A study of various attack patterns led to security software firm Sucuri concluding that … |
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Cyber Threats 2013: From Snowden to the Hunt for Red October
International Business Times UK … government employees and scientific research organisations, mostly in eastern Europe. Red October was compared to Flame in terms of complexity by Kaspersky Labs which first discovered the malware in October 2012. However Red October had at that … |