All the stories tagged with passwords

Brainwave Sensor Will Validate Log In Credentials Using Only Your Mind

04/08/2013, When you consider how easy it is for anyone to look over your shoulder while you’re typing in your password, as secure as you believe it to be, there will always be a way for people to figure it out [...]

Google Thinking Of Ways To Replace Traditional Passwords With Portable Methods

01/18/2013, In the digital age, passwords are a complete necessity in order to keep others out of your private accounts. What would Facebook, Gmail or any other service be without a password that only allows you to access it while keeping [...]

Hotmail to roll out new features to combat spam and account hacking

07/18/2011, You have probably received weird sounding emails from your friends before, and for those who us who are more suspicious in nature, we think “spam” and don’t bother opening it. Spam and account hacking is not new when it comes [...]

Trapster hack potentially exposes millions of iPhone, Android passwords

01/20/2011, Ever heard of Trapster, the website that has come up with mobile applications which warns users about speed traps? Well, it seems that the company is “trapped” in some way as users are notified that their passwords might have been [...]

Facebook Offers One-time Passwords And Remote Log Out To Make Access On Public Computers Safer

10/12/2010, Facebook has introduced some new security features in order to help protect users and their Facebook accounts. The first is the launch of one-time passwords, making it easy to access Facebook on public computers without having to worry about losing [...]

Strong Passwords and Log-Ins May Be the Weakest at Protecting Users

09/07/2010, We are taught to create the strongest passwords that we can think of–no sequential letters or characters with at least six to eight characters in length, and that password must be changed every so often, perhaps every couple of months. [...]