{"id":2510,"date":"2019-12-19T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technology.dearbornschools.org\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:27:51","slug":"online-security-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2019\/12\/19\/online-security-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of incidents remind us of why you should never reuse passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MysteryScience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Users have been receiving notice from MysteryScience about a breach. They are asking users to change their password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>*Reminder, do NOT click on the link in the email to change your password. Rather, go to the web site (in this case MysterScience) and use the Change password feature within the web site. This is a simple protection against phishing. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Massive Password Breach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This one doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;cool&#8221; name, but is significant. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/one-billion-email-password-combos\/\">write up from the Infosecurity Group<\/a> explains why this is so dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Billions of email addresses and plain text passwords have been leaked online by an unnamed party, putting countless internet users at risk from credential stuffing and other attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In total, the database contained 2.7 billion email addresses, and plain text passwords for more than one billion of them \u2014 providing a perfect starting point for a credential stuffing campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cSince many employees share passwords between their work and personal accounts, this leak not only problematic for the individuals who own the accounts, but a big risk for enterprises globally as well,\u201d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MysteryScience has a data breach and there is a massive password breach. [Read time: ~1 minute]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-category","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}