David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks its strange that David Shipley CEO of Beauceron
Security thinks NB Power and smart meters are great yet warns us about smart speakers N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/unb-issues-warning-after-faculty-emails.html
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/unb-issues-warning-after-faculty-emails.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cyber-security-unb-collection-one-1.4993914
UNB issues warning after faculty emails compromised in massive data dump
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David R. Amos
Methinks it would make no
difference anyway because the snobby professors supported by our tax
funds don't bother to read and or answer their emails anyway N'esy Pas?
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Two factor sign-in
authentication should be mandatory for institutional emails. UNB is
lagging behind on managing security threats and should review its
policies in the area. This is a major breach with huge implications for
those affected.
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison "This is a major breach with huge implications for those affected."
Dream on
Dream on
Emilien Forest
So U.N.B. creates the
problem, advertises that the problem is solved then eventually will come
looking for taxpayer dollars so that the problem is not repeated.
David R. Amos
@Emilien Forest YUP
Chris McNee
You might think they’d seek
advice from a computer scientist or something? Oh wait that’s right they
offer that program there :) sort of how mechanics seem to have crappy
cars :)
David R. Amos
@Chris McNee "sort of how mechanics seem to have crappy cars :)"
Methinks many would say that I resemble that remark N'esy Pas?
Methinks many would say that I resemble that remark N'esy Pas?
Chris McNee
@David R. Amos my dads a mechanic, well a retired one and all of his fellow mechanic friend also had crappy cars :) Yes Pas
David R. Amos
@Chris McNee Methinks your Father understands the game as well as this old dude N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Chris McNee "You might think they’d seek advice from a computer scientist or something?"
Methinks you should Google the following to see why the geeks at UNB can't fool one old Maritimer N'esy Pas?
David Amos Assange
Methinks you should Google the following to see why the geeks at UNB can't fool one old Maritimer N'esy Pas?
David Amos Assange
Ray Bungay
If students for example start
receiving emails from unknown contacts direct them unopened to your
spam bin, Mark them as spam then delete. Never open any emails from
unknown sources, that is my golden rule.
David R. Amos
@Ray Bungay Methinks that
stuff is not rocket science so its odd that the politicians thought it
wise to sink 30 million we ain't got into Fredericton's Knowledge Park
N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/knowledge-park-cybersecurity-building-1.4789261
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/knowledge-park-cybersecurity-building-1.4789261
Shawn McShane
"breaches from thousands of sources, collected over the years and posted to cloud services...
We were all warned...now lets trust smart meters and all the stuff that can control your home... Just to see what can happen...fools
We were all warned...now lets trust smart meters and all the stuff that can control your home... Just to see what can happen...fools
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks you
should ask Roger Richard about Smart Meters and NB Power before you
finance the installation of one on the side of your home N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks folks
may find it as strange as I did that David Shipley CEO of Beauceron
Security thinks NB Power and smart meters are great
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-cyber-safe-smart-power-grid-shipley-1.4262676
Yet warns us about smart speakers made by Amazon or Google N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cybersecurity-privacy-alexa-google-home-1.4963862
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-cyber-safe-smart-power-grid-shipley-1.4262676
Yet warns us about smart speakers made by Amazon or Google N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cybersecurity-privacy-alexa-google-home-1.4963862
Roger Richard
Too much faith is place in « smart » technology.
UNB issues warning after faculty emails compromised in massive data dump
'Collection #1' breach saw millions of email addresses and passwords posted online this month
The University of New Brunswick
is telling faculty and staff to be on the alert after some email
addresses were detected in a massive data dump published online earlier
this month.
The "Collection #1" breach includes millions of email addresses and passwords. It's believed to be an aggregate of data breaches from thousands of sources, collected over the years and posted to a cloud service last week.
Erik Denis, senior cybersecurity officer at UNB, said only 40 per cent of the 4,500 UNB email addresses detected in the collection are active.
"It's good for us to let people know to be safe because once you're compromised in some fashion, it gives the impression to the hacker that all these people may be more susceptible or less aware of what's going on out there," he said. "So they sometimes become more of a target."
Denis said 4,500 UNB email addresses were detected in the breach, but only 40 per cent are active. (Submitted)
Denis said once an email address has been exposed, there's no way to erase it. However, people can always be more cybersecure in their everyday life.
One of the biggest "don'ts" in the business is using the same password for different accounts.
"If a hacker hacked into one of your accounts and has the password, you have to assume that all your other accounts are compromised as well," Denis said.
Turning on two-factor authentication is important, because it adds one extra step to your sign-in process and makes it more difficult to hack.
"If you have two-factor authentication there is another step … and sometimes that's even harder to find than the password itself," said Denis.
Getting a password manager can be helpful, as it allows people to create and maintain multiple, difficult passwords without having to remember them all.
"It kind of makes the user experience much more complicated but unfortunately that's the world we have to live in right now," Denis said.
Deleting accounts you don't use anymore, like that hotmail email that you haven't signed on to in five years, can help minimize your "cyber circle," Denis said.
He said if people are more secure online, it'll help them be less scared off by stories about large breaches.
"It'll take some work on the front end … but in the long run it's much easier to manage and you can read the news with more of an open mind or a better perspective," he said.
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The "Collection #1" breach includes millions of email addresses and passwords. It's believed to be an aggregate of data breaches from thousands of sources, collected over the years and posted to a cloud service last week.
Erik Denis, senior cybersecurity officer at UNB, said only 40 per cent of the 4,500 UNB email addresses detected in the collection are active.
"It's good for us to let people know to be safe because once you're compromised in some fashion, it gives the impression to the hacker that all these people may be more susceptible or less aware of what's going on out there," he said. "So they sometimes become more of a target."
What to do?
Denis said once an email address has been exposed, there's no way to erase it. However, people can always be more cybersecure in their everyday life.
One of the biggest "don'ts" in the business is using the same password for different accounts.
"If a hacker hacked into one of your accounts and has the password, you have to assume that all your other accounts are compromised as well," Denis said.
Turning on two-factor authentication is important, because it adds one extra step to your sign-in process and makes it more difficult to hack.
"If you have two-factor authentication there is another step … and sometimes that's even harder to find than the password itself," said Denis.
Getting a password manager can be helpful, as it allows people to create and maintain multiple, difficult passwords without having to remember them all.
"It kind of makes the user experience much more complicated but unfortunately that's the world we have to live in right now," Denis said.
Deleting accounts you don't use anymore, like that hotmail email that you haven't signed on to in five years, can help minimize your "cyber circle," Denis said.
He said if people are more secure online, it'll help them be less scared off by stories about large breaches.
"It'll take some work on the front end … but in the long run it's much easier to manage and you can read the news with more of an open mind or a better perspective," he said.
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