By Chris Bennetts | Password Security
Yahoo wants to end your dependency on memorizing passwords — or creating crap ones that can be guessed or hacked — after it introduced a new “on-demand” system that sends a one-time password when you need to log in. The new approach is designed to increase security and make your Yahoo account less hackable. In […]
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Who is at risk? Find out how to protect your password! In late August 2016, Dropbox sent out a warning email requesting all users reset their passwords. This started a lot of rumors and Dropbox has since confirmed that a data dump, containing 68 million Dropbox user IDs with hashed passwords, was obtained by unknown […]
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MacKeeper promotes itself as security and performance enhancement tool for the Apple Mac. MacKeeper has been the target of a lot of criticism and even a class action for its claims and unethical marketing techniques. This latest revaluation shows that they are not even very good at protecting client information so they are hardly a […]
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“FriendFinder Networks Inc. recently became aware of a potential data security incident,” the company said in a statement on Friday. AdultFriendFinder.com, part of Sunnyvale, California-based FriendFinder Networks Inc, said it had contacted law enforcement, including the FBI, and a private investigative team to review the incident. FriendFinder Networks has 600 million-plus members on more than […]
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Twitch is an Amazon-owned game streaming company. The company announced that it had been hacked on the company blog, and also sent emails to concerned users. It then required users to change their password and increased the minimum number of characters in user passwords. Twitch said all user passwords were to be reset after it […]
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Premera Blue Cross is large American insurer and the latest to admit to being hacked. This is the second major hack of a large health insurance company so far in 2015. In January, hackers stole similar personal information on 80 million people from insurance giant Anthem. The Premera servers were initially infiltrated on May 5, […]
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According to German publication Heise, email addresses and passwords of more than 1,800 Minecraft accounts were published online in plain-text format. These details would allow anyone to log in to each of those user’s accounts on Minecraft to play online, and download the game to their own computers. Does not sound bad does it? The […]
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Yet another social gaming network has been hacked and user info and passwords potentially exposed. This time the site is Rapta which boasts over 22 million registered users. Company founder and CEO, Dennis Fong, made an announcement that there has been a break in and that user data may have been compromised. “User names, email […]
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