Apple and Starbucks are two of the world's most trusted companies, but they both recently fell victim to security hacks. Both set up systems that appear to have allowed hackers to break into customers' accounts by repeatedly ...
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May 19, 2015
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High on the White House's hit list: The series of letters, numbers and symbols you type in when you access everything from your bank account to your Netflix list.
Security
May 13, 2015
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"Create a password" is a prompt familiar to anyone who's tried to buy a book from Amazon or register for a Google account. Equally familiar is that red / yellow / green bar that rates the new password's strength. But when ...
Security
Mar 25, 2015
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Amazon.com's video game streaming platform Twitch informed users that their accounts may have been hacked.
Security
Mar 24, 2015
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Passwords are a pain. I've just had to rummage around for the password required in order to post this article. I seem to have 100 or more different identities on different websites to manage. Whenever I book a flight or buy ...
Security
Mar 23, 2015
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Passwords are one of the banes of my life. I bet they are for you, too.
Internet
Feb 11, 2015
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Global IT giants including Amazon and LinkedIn could be doing far more to raise awareness of the need for better password practices among their users.
Security
Dec 22, 2014
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Intel Corp. said Monday that it bought PasswordBox, a service that saves and remembers passwords so that users can log into different websites without having to remember or type in their passwords.
Business
Dec 1, 2014
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In 2004 Bill Gates pronounced usernames and passwords dead. Gates, a man consistently thinking ahead of the crowd, was right. Most of us – including our employers and the online services we rely on – just haven't caught ...
Security
Oct 28, 2014
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Cyber-security expert Gerome Billois explains how a "targeted attack" on some iCloud accounts—the Apple online service that stores all types of content—led to the release of nude celebrity photos.
Security
Sep 3, 2014
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