All the stories tagged with password
Apple Password Recovery System Patented
04/23/2013, Passwords are sensitive stuff, and with so many user accounts for a person to hold these days, it can get rather tricky trying to remember all of them, as some sites require 8 characters minimum, while others want a healthy [...]
AT&T Wants Sanitized Passwords
03/31/2013, If you think that having so many passwords to remember is a bane to your mind these days, how about choosing one that has some obscene words thrown into the mix? That ought to make life easier for those brain [...]
California, Illinois Employers Cannot Request For Employee Facebook Passwords
01/01/2013, I am not quite sure just how the law allows employers to know an employee’s Facebook password in the first place, but I am glad that the courts have ruled that employers in California and Illinois no longer have the [...]
Password of the future: Your eye movement
10/15/2012, Do you remember the nonchalant manner in which Loki obtained an eyeball at a ball (sorry, I just could not resist that) in the Avengers? Well, biometric security measures are not exactly the newest kid on the block when it [...]
Open Home WiFi Access Led to SWAT Raid on Innocent Family Home
06/29/2012, In Evansville, Indiana, a Police SWAT team has executed a search warrant on a home in full tactical gears. The reason: threats perpetrated against local Police forces over the internet, threatening the officers lives, their family, including the mention of [...]
eHarmony confirms password breach
06/07/2012, It was just early yesterday morning when LinkedIn reported a security breach, and here we are with word that dating site eHarmony has also confirmed a password breach of their own, where password hashes for eHarmony were rolled out on [...]
‘Password1′ is most popular business password worldwide
03/09/2012, If you own a business, then make sure not only you, but your entire organization – everything that needs and everyone who has a password, will not use ‘Password1′ as the password. This is what we managed to gather from [...]
Cheap graphics cards help crack passwords
10/05/2011, Do you happen to be in possession of some rather nifty hacking knowledge, and also a £30 graphics card lying around the basement somewhere? If you answered “Yes” on both accounts, then good – chances are you are already equipped [...]
Bethesda forums hacked again?
08/15/2011, Uh oh, it looks like the hack-fest that happened over the past few months might be starting up again. Back in June we reported about Bethesda’s forums getting hacked, and now the company has reported about another possible security breach [...]
Mac OS X Lion’s auto-login has a security flaw
07/28/2011, If you have recently installed Mac OS X Lion on your computer, you might have been slightly pleased with the automatic login which shaves off a couple of seconds between turning on your computer and getting down to business. As [...]
Mozilla BrowserID: so you don’t have to remember countless passwords
07/15/2011, There are so many web services available right now, with each one requiring a separate login to use. And while we know it’s not wise to use the same password for all your different accounts – it’s just so difficult [...]
Dropbox confirms password glitch
06/20/2011, If you logged in to your Dropbox account on Sunday, between 1.54pm PT and 5.46pm PT, you might not have noticed it but you could use any password to log into your account – or any account for that matter. [...]
Developer reveals the top 10 most common iPhone passwords
06/14/2011, Daniel Amitay, the developer of the Big Brother Camera Security app for the iPhone recently updated the app to send passwords that users set for the app, back to him for some research he was doing. Since the Big Brother [...]
