Survey finds that most people use the same one or two passwords everywhere

The results of the Gartner research are detailed here: http://www.itsecurityportal.com/itsecurity_news.asp?articleid=262928

While it is understandable that people generally are not fond of having to remember a ton of different passwords, the reality is that there are some excellent FREE applications/add-ons that help you maintain password disparity. Keepass allows you to have different passwords without the need to memorize them all, while Password Hasher allows you to just worry about a master key and it then computes the unique password based on the domain name of the target website.

Keepass (runs on just about any platform, not just Windows): http://keepass.info/

Password Hasher add-on (for Firefox, and who in their right min would use any other browser?): http://wijjo.com/project/?c=passhash

Psyb0t targets home routers

Interesting trends we are seeing in the b0t world, this worm takes over people’s routers/modems and use them as an attack platform to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. People usually notice a bot on their PC, but when you put it on the router, who would ever notice the performance hit and suspect the router? The worm also blocks access to the admin ports on the router/modem, thereby making it most difficult to troubleshoot.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/psyb0t_home_networking_worm/