Botnet Swipes Two Million Passwords, Most Of Them Were Really Bad

The article talks about a Botnet that stole two million passwords, but the amazing thing was how bad many of the passwords were! “Among the worst were: 123456, 123456789, 1234 and, “password.” I know that nobody you know is using “password” for a password, right? Right. Now go change it. Sheesh.

Here’s the second notice from US-CERT about an increasing number of ransomware infections. The malware has the ability to find and encrypt files located within shared network drives, USB drives, external hard drives, network file shares and even some cloud storage drives. If one computer on a network becomes infected, mapped network drives could also become infected. Victims are told they have three days to pay the attacker through a third-party payment method or they’ll lose their data.

The takeaway is, do not follow unsolicited web links in email messages.

Read all about it at http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-309A

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