Week 13

Twitter is urging all of its 330 million users to change their passwords after a software glitch unintentionally exposed its users’ passwords by storing them in readable text on its internal computer system.

The social media network disclosed the issue in an official blog post and a series of tweets from Twitter Support.

According to Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal, Twitter hashes passwords using a popular function known as bcrypt, which replaces an actual password with a random set of numbers and letters and then stored it in its systems.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/05/twitter-account-password.html

 

 

 

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2018/04/01/cyber-attacks-more-dangerous

Ashely Wearne, the head of Cyber Security group Sophos, recently said that current game plan against digital lawbreakers is to hit them smart, hit them fast, and hit them early.

With the advent of the digital age, suddenly, attacks or even wars are not only fought at the border. Rather, these attacks have found their way right into our offices, and homes, while we are altogether oblivious to it.

Last year, a North Korean ransomware which is essentially a crypto worm by nature, and aptly named as WannaCry, played havoc around the world by incapacitating more than 200,000 computers. The attack was not restricted to any target countries, but rather over 150 countries suffered from this attack.

This attack was condemned by many countries, but repercussions of such threats loom large on Cyber Security companies, whose existence lies in defending us from suck attack. In the words of Wearne, “If we have one bad day, we’re out of business. It’s a very thin line.”