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Features 2Are Your Passwords Safe?
How to keep your accounts as secure as possible. By Joe Kissell We don’t mean to alarm you, but – well, actually we do. Your password strategy,...
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NewsBrainwaves as passwords a boon for wearable computing
Researchers show the potential of thought-based authentication using a stock gaming headset that captured EEG signals. With the next wave in consumer...
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Features 1Safe and sound: securing Mountain Lion
Since our last security feature in 2012, a lot has changed with OS X security. Apple has improved kernel-level security protections like Address Space...
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NewsEvernote reports hack attack, tells users to reset passwords
Evernote, which makes business and consumer productivity software for things like taking notes and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million...
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NewsTwitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks
Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep...
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News250,000 users must reset their passwords after Twitter hack
Twitter’s servers were breached by “extremely sophisticated” hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users,...
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HelpWhat you don’t know about passwords might hurt you
I don’t mean to alarm you, but—well, actually I do. Your password strategy, if you have one at all, might be seriously out of date. In recent...
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NewsTwitter resets more user passwords than necessary
Twitter overnight forced many users to reset their passwords following an apparent security breach, but the company says not everyone who received...
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NewsNew Mac malware stealing passwords
Just days after Oracle updated Java to patch critical vulnerabilities being used by hackers, another piece of Mac malware has been identified by...
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NewsMother stole passwords to change children’s school grades
A US school assistant has been charged with misusing passwords to access and change her children’s grades on the institution’s computer...
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NewsLinkedIn confirms breach, urges members to change passwords
LinkedIn on Wednesday confirmed reports that some of its users’ passwords have been compromised. Over night, reports surfaced that approximately...
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NewsLion user passwords in ‘clear text’
An Apple security error in the latest Mac OS X 10.7.3 update has left login passwords unencrypted. According to technology website ZDNet, Apple programmers...
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News 1Mac malware steals passwords
A new version of a well-known family of Mac malware exploits vulnerabilities in Java to steal usernames and passwords for online payment, banking...
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App Guide 1DataVault Password Manager
Your personal data can never be too secure, especially when it’s on a device that’s with you everywhere you go. DataVault Password Manager is...
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News 1Google’s two-step authentication goes global
Google said late last week that it has rolled out its two-step authentication sign-in system to 40 languages across over 150 countries. The service,...
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NewsNew software steals Lion passwords
A company that makes password recovery tools has released a program that can snatch passwords from a locked or sleeping Mac running OS X Lion simply...
