{"id":72118,"date":"2013-11-08T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?p=72118"},"modified":"2013-11-08T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:48:49","slug":"adobe-password-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/2013\/11\/08\/adobe-password-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe security alert and related password changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/x-productkb\/policy-pricing\/customer-alert.html?promoid=KHQGF\">As described on their website,<\/a> Adobe was recently the victim of an attack from which over 153  million accounts, passwords and password hints were exposed. IS&amp;T&#8217;s  Information Security team has analyzed the information that was made public and found that over 9000 of the Adobe accounts belong to  users who signed up with a Boston University email address.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever created an account with Adobe to download or register any of their products, please:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Change your <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\">Adobe<\/a> password immediately!<\/li>\n<li>Change the password of any account on which you happen to use that same password<\/li>\n<li>Change your BU Kerberos password at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/authentication\/kerberos\/kerberos\/reset\/\">www-staging.bu.edu\/tech\/accounts\/kerberos\/reset\/<\/a> <strong>if you have not done so since October 1. <\/strong>Note that you will also need to establish the new password in any computer or device settings in which it has been saved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To keep yourself safe in the future, it&#8217;s best to avoid using the same password for multiple accounts. Also, you should use a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/infosec\/howtos\/password-management\/\">password manager<\/a> to store each unique password and keep them all safe.<\/p>\n<p>If you need any assistance or are concerned about the security of your BU Kerberos password, please contact the IT Help Center at (617) 353-HELP or write to ithelp@bu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described on their website, Adobe was recently the victim of an attack from which over 153 million accounts, passwords and password hints were exposed. IS&amp;T&#8217;s Information Security team has analyzed the information that was made public and found that over 9000 of the Adobe accounts belong to users who signed up with a Boston&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72118\/revisions\/72126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}