NEWS Tik Tok - WTF?

[ChuckMK23]

Check your personal/financial accounts often, change your passwords more often.

2-factor.

 

[Random8145]

Check your personal/financial accounts often, change your passwords more often.

Also don't use your bank card to buy things, use a credit card and then pay it off each month. This makes it harder for your account to be compromised.

 

[Swanee]

Jeez. We're now getting AW annual training.

Edit: I've always thought the tech annual training stuff was born out of very egotistical old folks who thought, "Wow, if I didn't know this until now, no one does! If I could fall for this scam, anyone can!"

 

[Brett327]

Counterpoint: the reason those scamming techniques are out there is because they work… and not just on 55+ senior DoD leaders.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Jeez. We're now getting AW annual training.

Edit: I've always thought the tech annual training stuff was born out of very egotistical old folks who thought, "Wow, if I didn't know this until now, no one does! If I could fall for this scam, anyone can!"

I thought that too, until I was targeted and fell for a ID theft scam myself a few years ago. It's not just old folks, and techniques change and adapt with the technology. There were aspects of their attack that I did not have the knowledge to recognize, and they caught me when I was working and distracted, so I was even less apt to catch the red flags (which I admit were blindingly obvious in hindsight).

Having said that, the cyber awareness challenge is stupid- it's the same stuff, year after year, and falling further behind. Even calling it the "cyber awareness challenge" makes it sound like we're in the 1990s when people were just becoming aware that the internet is a thing.

 

[taxi1]

My wife called me at work one day and asked for the admin password for her laptop, because a screen had popped saying she had problems and she had called the number on the screen to get help. The Helpful Person needed admin privileges.

I wonder how often that works.

 

[HSMPBR]

 

[ChuckMK23]

My wife called me at work one day and asked for the admin password for her laptop, because a screen had popped saying she had problems and she had called the number on the screen to get help. The Helpful Person needed admin privileges.

I wonder how often that works.

all. the. time.

 

[robav8r]

Change your password . . . frequently . . . . . . check your financial accounts . . . . . . . frequently . . . . . . . oh, and don't surf porn on your devices . . .

 

[taxi1]

I use the 1Password password manager.

 

[nittany03]

Even calling it the "cyber awareness challenge" makes it sound like we're in the 1990s when people were just becoming aware that the internet is a thing.

 

[Gonzo08]

I use the 1Password password manager.

Been thinking about finally getting one of those, and 1Password is at the top of most password manager lists. I just need to convince COMVAQWIFEPAC that password managers aren't actually scams anymore.

What's your experience been like with it? How hard was it to import all your passwords into one program? Do you have deployment/underway experience with it?

 

[Flash]

...oh, and don't surf porn on your devices . . .

What else is the internet really for then?

 

[taxi1]

Been thinking about finally getting one of those, and 1Password is at the top of most password manager lists. I just need to convince COMVAQWIFEPAC that password managers aren't actually scams anymore.

What's your experience been like with it? How hard was it to import all your passwords into one program? Do you have deployment/underway experience with it?

It's great so far. I had my passwords in the Google Chrome ecosystem on one computer and Firefox on another and Safari on a tablet, so there were some collisions as 1Password hit each to import them through its wizard, but it was surprisingly easy compared to what I expected.

The hard part was the password shaming as 1Password analyzed my shitty passwords and how many times they were repeated and how some were known exploits, and informed me I needed to get right by my passwordology. Hung my head for a day or two.

Now my super complex 100 digit or whatever passwords are magically available on all of my devices; three computers, three iPads, an iPhone, everything synced up until the EM pulse hits. Just have to remember the master password and tuck away the emergency key in a very safe place.

I got the family account, but I am the only one who uses it. I am moving some of my passwords (e.g., Netflix, xFinity) into the shared folder and making them super complex to force my wife and son to use it.

 

[number9]

Been thinking about finally getting one of those, and 1Password is at the top of most password manager lists. I just need to convince COMVAQWIFEPAC that password managers aren't actually scams anymore.

What's your experience been like with it? How hard was it to import all your passwords into one program? Do you have deployment/underway experience with it?

1Password is very, very good.