April 10th: The Perpetual Password Threat (part 1)
April 10, 2009
Think your passwords offer protection from hackers? Think again. You know your passwords are the key to your kingdom. You know you’re doing something to protect them. But chances are it’s not nearly enough. On Friday, April 10th, join Steve Dispensa and co-host Dan Costa, executive editor at PCMag.com, as they take on the password security challenge.
This episode will be the first of a 2-part series: The Perpetual Password Threat. There are so many types of passwords attacks now, we couldn’t cover it in just one show.
Dispensa and Costa will kick off the series talking about why password quality is still terrible, why passwords are easy to intercept, and how easy they are to abuse. By the time they’ve told you the straight story on why passwords just don’t work and discuss approaches to make your company safer, you’ll be on red alert for other sinister attacks and their solutions. That’s coming up on the 2nd episode which will air live from the RSA conference in San Francisco on Thursday, April 24th. There Steve and his co-host will take on extremely sinister approaches to passwords: how to crack them, how to steal them with Man-in-the-Middle attacks, and how to protect them with two-factor authentication. Don’t miss this series!
