Equifax Breach, did it end there?

Most of you have heard about the equifax breach by now. But did you know that Equifax has another website that is an employment income verification site, that has all of most your employment data, employment dates, SALARY INFORMATION, and much more, and shows how it can be accessed, sometimes with a simple email address? This is information that has already been breached, the realistically could allow someone to fake a tax return (the should belong to you)

October is national security month. And you should really read this article, it’s quite alarming, and people need to be aware. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-your-salary-history/ Krebs on Security is a great source of security, and breach information, and is usually very timely in reporting as well. The only good thing is The Work Number site doesn’t seem to work real well, and either crashes, or fails to retrieve what’s there.

Black Monday for Wifi

Today is BLACK MONDAY: WiFi is No Longer Secure”

Today is being called “Black Monday” in many information security circles. We have had a major Wi-Fi vulnerability announced that affects absolutely every device that supports Wi-Fi. The vulnerability allows attackers to decrypt WPA2 connections. A second vulnerability has also emerged today. This is a bad day for security. 

There is a lot of very technical information, which most of you won’t understand, but if you techies want to read the full article, WordFence wrote it much better than I ever could. You can catch that post here: WORDFENCE WPA2 ENCRYPTION CRACKED!  

Just to show you how quickly a hacker can now get onto a wifi network, and get passwords, and much, much more, I’ll add the Video here so you don’t have to click to watch the video. 

 I will follow up this post, as soon as I learn how to secure wifi again. As it is, everyone is using WPA2, it was supposed to be the unbreakable security method. But I’m sure they will tell us quickly how to block these kind of attacks, and I will pass it on to you as soon as I find out myself. (because information should be shared)