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If Your Password Is “ji32k7au4a83” You Might Want To Change It
How Good Is Your Password? These days, we are regularly prompted to change our passwords for one reason or another. In fact, it has even gotten to the point that I have so many complex passwords that I’ve stopped trying to remember them and have instead reverted to a bizarrely…
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New Netflix Phishing Scam Has Been Identified
Netflix Phishing Scam Anyone who has regularly used the internet will be aware that there are more than a few minefields to dodge when it comes to scams. For example, I regularly receive e-mails telling me about purchases made on my Apple account. While I haven’t, of course, made any…
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The 25 Worst Passwords For 2018 Revealed
25 Worst Passwords For 2018 You know when it’s getting towards the end of a year when you start seeing ‘top’ lists appearing online. Of these though, undoubtedly one of the more popular is passwords. Specifically, those that people still (against all logic of security) still seem to persist with…
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Dell Issues Password Reset After Cyber Attack
Dell Issues Password Reset After Cyber Attack Despite their somewhat waning popularity in recent years, Dell is still one of the biggest major PC and laptop manufacturers out there. As such, their website has many people with a registered account who sign up for news, technical support or perhaps just…
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Twitter Advises 330 Million To Change Their Password
Twitter Advises 300 Million Users To Change Their Passwords Twitter is perhaps today the most popular social media platform available. I have somehow personally managed to resist the temptation to go to Twitter, but that’s not for any other reason than I have enough social media in my life with…
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Spotify Test Filter For Explicit Lyrics In Songs
Spotify begin testing explicit lyrics filter While you may not necessarily mean Michael Bublé swearing in his songs, explicit lyrics are a fairly common factor in new releases these days. In fact, they have been fairly regular for about 30 years. I still remember my ‘Guns ‘n’ Roses’ phase fondly…
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Top 25 Worst Passwords From 2017 Are Revealed
Top 25 worst passwords of 2017! The end of the year is fast approaching. As such, during this time, we get to see a lot of ‘best and worsts’ of the year. One of the more amusing aspects of this, however, is the worst passwords used. Online security is a…
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The Man Behind Password Guidelines Says ’50rrY, i g0t iT wR0nG’
I’m sorry, that password is incorrect… Please choose your password. I’m sorry, please choose a password with a capital letter. Sorry, please use a password with at least 8 characters. I’m sorry, please use a special character in your password. I’m sorry, your details have timed out. Please try again.…
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Predictable Passwords Remain Popular Despite Increased Security Breaches
Despite the increase of publicized data breaches and hacking, security researchers have found that most people’s online security habits remain relatively unchanged including their choice of passwords to access online services. Keeper Security has analyzed over 10 million passwords that have become public from these data breaches within 2016 alone…
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400 Million AdultFriendFinder Accounts Exposed in Hack
Over the past year, that have been an increasing number of database and server breaches. It seems like no one can properly secure themselves against a motivated attacker. In the latest assault, AdultFriendFinder and parent company Friend Finder Network have suffered one of the largest breaches to date. In total, the latest…
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Facebook is Buying Your Passwords on the Black Market
With an increasing number of mid-sized social networking and media websites being hacked en masse – MySpace, LinkedIn, Badoo, and tumblr are listed in the top-ten mass security breaches on Have I Been Pwned?, with hundreds of millions of accounts compromised – it’s rare to hear stories of social media…
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Hackers Stole Account Information of Over 68 Million Dropbox Users
If you’re a long-time Dropbox user, you’ll have noticed that recently the company distributed an email to a large number of its users recently, urging (and in some cases forcing) them to change their passwords. Now the reason for this has come to light: Back in 2012, the cloud storage…
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FTC Technologist Recommends Against Frequent Password Changes
When it comes to passwords, we are told many things. We are told to use at least a capital letter, lower case letters, a symbol, some numbers and while we are told all kinds of things about passwords, the worsts part is often remembering them as we are recommended to…
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LastPass Flaws Hands Out Passwords to Hackers
eBay, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit. With so many accounts it’s often hard to come up with and remember, unique passwords for every site and account we use on a regular basis. With people using more and more accounts for everything its hard to keep track of your passwords without making them…
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Macs Latest Malware Reveals All
Computers are lovely things, reuniting people from all over the world and letting you find the world’s information at the press of a button. The problem with computers is that with them being connected comes a risk and it looks like someone has taken the risk to a whole new…
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