Here's a quick followup to September's post regarding Yahoo's admission that they had 500,000,000 accounts stolen back in 2014. (For those who lost count of the zeroes... that's 500 Million...)

Yahoo recently fessed up to another security breach... this one happened a year earlier than the aforementioned breach, and it's twice as bad, having affected 1,000,000,000 accounts (that's ONE BILLION).

Besides the sheer volume of the breach, this has very far reaching effect. Even if you do not have a Yahoo email account, Flickr is a Yahoo-owned service and those accounts are included in the breach. If you've had a Verizon phone in the past, then your email account was likely managed by Yahoo. And it doesn't end there... Many are advocating deleting all your Yahoo accounts, however it's not always that simple. Here are a couple of articles that may prove helpful:

Chances are that most of you maintain an acceptible level of network security at your offices, but can you say the same thing about your and your employees' home Internet connections? Considering that it's becoming more and more common for employees to perform at least a portion of their work from home, maintaining good home network security is almost as important as it is at the workplace.

Since most "normal" people aren't comfortable with the complexities of computer networking, manufacturers of network devices try to make things as simple as possible to set up. Unfortunately, this often leads to massive security problems... especially on low-cost network devices like routers, web cams, light bulbs and other cheaply made devices.