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A few months ago, I had written a blog – What the hack? (https://www.gfi.com/blog/what-the-hack/[1]) – which highlighted the spate of hack attacks which had been happening at the time. Times have not changed much since then, and we keep on hearing about more and more passwords leaks, hacks, stolen identities and loss of personal information.
Adobe was a very notorious victim with millions of password compromised. The recent victims, about 2 million login credentials of a number of social networking sites including Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google and vk.com. Security firm Trustwave has discovered (link to: https://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-pony.html[2]) a trove of login credentials. Looking at the actual passwords, reveals some alarming information: a substantial number of users actually use passwords which are dead easy to guess. The most common passwords are:
Now, as website administrator we probably don’t have to tell you that you shouldn’t be using these types of passwords. So let’s come up with a few DO’s and corresponding DON’Ts. Drum these rules into the heads of your users, your better half, your kids, your parents, your colleagues, your dog or whoever uses passwords online. Do it repeatedly until they succumb to your insistence :) Think Sheldon type of insistence and paranoia.
1. Never use a simple password such as one of the above for the (super) administrator accounts of your website – it is a recipe for that account to be hacked. Do not use the following as a password: any sequence on your keyboard (qwerty, qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl, poiuytrewq, zxcvbnm), your name (or any name), your surname, your date of birth, or anything else which is easy. Don’t use dictionary words. Rule of thumb: what is easy for you to remember, is probably easy to guess!
2. DO use a complex password, or pass phrase for your most common used websites and office password. Use a phrase which is sensible to you, but nobody else, use mixed case, punctuation characters, and make it long. You will get used to it if you type it often. Examples of complex pass phrases: Mycatisn0tgrumpy! Mydogbump5intowall$, IS1ngwhenIc*ok, Iwillr3tireat40$$. You get the gist. Use something personal, which is not easily guessable. PS. This infographic might help create a strong password https://lifehacker.com/5876541/use-this-infographic-to-pick-a-good-strong-password[3]
3. DO check your password complexity against the Password checker: https://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx[4]
4. DO use a separate password for each website you use. Do NOT reuse passwords. Password reuse allows a hacker who compromised a single password to get access to ALL your accounts. Even if you use a complex passphrase such as those in 2, do not reuse that password
5. DO enable Two Factor Authentication( 2FA) wherever it is available[5]: Google, Facebook, Twitter and Joomla! all allow you to enable 2FA. This will generate a time-limited token (usually a text message on your phone) or a password generate by an app such as Google Authenticator
6. DO use a password manager to store your passwords – especially the ones used for websites you don’t use often
7. DO NOT use the password manager for passwords where you have sensitive information such as VISA details. Your office login and password, Paypal[6], Google, Facebook, Amazon and your other sensitive information accounts should NOT be stored in your password manager
8. DO NOT store payment information such as VISA numbers in your email account (for easy access)
9. DO protect your passwords from prying eyes, never reveal your password(s) to anyone
10. DO change your sensitive passwords regularly, better safe than sorry
Read more https://www.dart-creations.com/joomla/joomla-security/10-tips-for-your-websites-security.html
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'Tis the season to be jolly ... fa lalala lalalala....!
That song has been ringing in my head for the past week and while savoring the Christmas spirit portrayed in shopping malls, I thought, lets do something DIFFERENT for our Joomla customers.
We've striked up a joint effort with partner JoomlaShine to offer you a Christmas Bundle so that you can start blogging in Joomla when you have time in between your holiday.
This Bundle consists of EasyBlog Community license and a JoomlaShine template JSN Pixel for FREE at a super saver price of $59 for 12-months support license for both products. Instead of $118, you only pay $59 for this Bundle.
There are several other Joomla templates that support EasyBlog and you can choose either one of them below:
The Bundle is already pre-loaded with JSN Pixel so if you prefer the other one in the list, you just need to write to JoomlaShine.
In essence, all of the Joomla templates by JoomlaShine works smoothly with EasyBlog and our other extensions so you will be assured of smooth extension/template operation for your Joomla site.
This promo starts today and expires on Dec 22nd, 2013 at 2359 hours (UTC+8)
Have a wonderful Christmas to you from all of us at StackIdeas!
Read more https://stackideas.com/blog/get-a-free-joomlashine-blog-template-for-easyblog
Monday, 16 December 2013 19:10
A new version of Advanced Module Manager has been released.
16-Dec-2013 : v4.8.3
# Fixed some untranslated system message strings
# JOOMLA 3.x Fixed issue with date fields adding the timezone offset on every save
# JOOMLA 3.x Fixed issue with tags assignments not working
Read more https://www.nonumber.nl/news/releases/806-advanced-module-manager-v4-8-3-released
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