It's National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Here are Some Security Tips from Intel

In a startling and ironic introduction to Cyber Security Awareness Month, design software company Adobe admitted its servers were breached by hackers who accessed usernames, passwords, and financial information from nearly 3 million customers. The breach occurred in August, but the company was not aware of the hack until mid-September when security researcher and journalist Brian Krebs noticed  Adobe’s source code on servers used for previous hacking attempts.

In an announcement on the company’s blog on October 3, 2013, Brian Arkin, Adobe’s Chief Security Officer finally explains the extent of the security breach:

Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We

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