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The worst passwords you could ever choose exposed by Yahoo Voices hack
Ninja? Princess? 123456? Too many internet users are making poor decisions when choosing their passwords.
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Outlook webmail passwords restricted to 16 chars - how does that compare with...
Shouldn't Outlook.com be giving users the option of having longer passwords? That's what Yahoo and Gmail do..
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Journo totally owned thanks to over-helpful iCloud support
Mat Honan is a living example of Journalism 2.0. Honan has also recently been the victim of a hack - a hack so trivial in some respects that naysayers will probably spend hours telling us that it...
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Correcthorsebatterystaple - the guys at Dropbox are funny
Remember that famous xkcd cartoon, suggesting passphrases like "correcthorsebatterystaple" are harder for hackers to crack than the likes of "Tr0ub4dor&3"? Well, I'm full of admiration for whoever...
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Cracking passwords from the Philips hack - an important lesson
Cracking the password hashes exposed in the recent Philips data breach was interesting, but there was just as much to be learned from the rate of recovery as from the password recovery itself. We've...
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Security tip: Before being interviewed on TV, wipe passwords off whiteboard
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Fingerprint scanner maker cries foul over Russian firm's security warning
Authentec, the maker of the widely used UPEK fingerprint scanner, said on Wednesday that it couldn't find any evidence to support claims by the Russian security firm Elcomsoft that its software stores...
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"Im getting paid!" - Websites hosted on WordPress hacked due to users' poor...
Millions of blogs hosted on WordPress.com can breathe a sigh of relief - although a hacker did manage to break into thousands of sites and publish a make-money-fast advert, it wasn't because of any...
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Prince William photos accidentally reveal RAF password
Prince William gets photographed doing his day job - unfortunately, someone didn't spot the password pinned to the wall behind him..
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Hard-coded password found in Samsung printers, security fix planned
Companies using Samsung and Dell-branded printers are being warned that a hard coded administrative account could allow remote attackers to take control of their device, according to an alert from the...
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Boutique babycare website hack - not just the Big Guys at risk
Even if you run a tiny website and don't have much to hide, you (and your customers) are nevertheless at risk from criminals. For example, @JokerCracker, who openly gives his reason for hacking as,...
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Sony fined £250,000 after hackers gained access to millions of gamers' details
"There’s no disguising that this is a business that should have known better," says ICO director. How many headlines do there have to be before companies take data security more seriously?
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Hacked TV channels broadcast zombie apocalypse emergency alert [VIDEO]
Hackers interrupt TV channels to broadcast an emergency alert, warning that the bodies of the dead have risen from their graves, and attacking the public. A good reminder to not use default passwords?...
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Jawbone accounts compromised by hackers - personal info accessed, passwords...
Jawbone, makers of Bluetooth headsets, fitness bracelets, and neat Jambox portable speakers, has warned that hackers managed to break into its systems, and accessed the names, email addresses and...
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Jeremy Clarkson falls foul of bodyfat spammers on Twitter, vows to kill hackers
The controversial presenter of BBC's "Top Gear" programme, has had his Twitter account compromised by spammers... and he wants his revenge.
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Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags. Do not relax: such success doesn't let us...
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Evernote hacked - almost 50 million passwords reset after security breach
Evernote, the online note-taking service, has says that it has suffered a serious security breach which saw hackers steal usernames, associated email addresses and encrypted passwords.
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Evernote shoots itself in foot over "never click on 'reset password'...
Have you taken a close look at the email that Evernote has sent out, with the subject line "Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset"? It looks like the hacked company has made a blunder.
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Can multiple moving cursors really hide your password from spyware and...
Japanese boffins think they might have found an imaginative way to stop malware stealing your passwords as you enter them online. But will it really work?
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Colin Powell's Facebook account has been hacked
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is the latest public figure to have fallen victim to hackers, with a series of out-of-character messages posted to his Facebook page.
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