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Leaked Twitter Passwords Probably Spam
May 09, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Twitter said thousands of the leaked usernames and passwords are duplicates or belong to inactive accounts. View Full Article »
An Inconvenient Truth: Phishers Target Single-Password Service
May 07, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Phishing emails appear as real estate listings or UPS notifications. View Full Article »
Microsoft Fixes Critical Hotmail Password Bug
April 27, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Bug let hackers erase Hotmail passwords, set up new ones. View Full Article »
Simple Games Could Replace Baffling 'Captchas'
April 24, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
User-friendly games could change way websites authenticate visitors. View Full Article »
FBI Suspects Student of Election Hacking
April 20, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
College students allegedly tampered with election results hacking into school's computer system and stealing passwords used in online voting View Full Article »
Japanese Bank Introduces Palm-Scanning ATMs
April 11, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
New ATMs will eliminate cards; still require birth date and four-digit PIN. View Full Article »
Utah Medicaid Clients Hit by Huge Data Breach
April 09, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Hackers are believed to be Eastern European, Utah Department of Health says. View Full Article »
'Password1' Revealed to be Most Common (and Terrible) Password
March 14, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Variations of the word "password" made up about 5 percent of all passwords in the study. View Full Article »
Most Default Passwords Never Change, Survey Finds
February 23, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Majority of people want tighter security, but greater convenience View Full Article »
Why Your ATM PIN Needs to be Changed
February 21, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Don't use your birthday as your ATM PIN. View Full Article »
Goodbye Gibberish: Making Passwords Easier to Remember
February 21, 2012, Stuart Fox, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
What could possibly be simpler than 'Xl$#kF23!0'? View Full Article »
Password Overload: How Can Anyone Remember Them All?
February 06, 2012, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
How to keep your online accounts safe without going crazy View Full Article »
Is It Safe to Store Passwords in the Cloud?
January 31, 2012, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
Let the Internet do the remembering for you View Full Article »
Twitter 'Porn Star Name Game' Is Identity Thief's Dream
November 23, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Playing the game is as good as posting your passwords, researcher says. View Full Article »
Is Your Password Among the 25 Worst?
November 22, 2011, Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor
1234567, all good passwords go to heaven View Full Article »
Poor Password Security Poses Big IT Problem
October 25, 2011, Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor
'Password chaos' reigns among IT professionals and no one is doing anything about it. View Full Article »
Many Brits Pass Along Passwords as They Pass On
October 13, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
More than $3.6 billion of Brits' "digital treasures" are stored in the cloud. View Full Article »
Most Australians Have One Password for Everything
October 04, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Half of respondents change their password only when prompted to. View Full Article »
Russian Firm Cracks 'Impossible' BlackBerry Passwords
September 29, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
"Phone Password Breaker" can recover passwords from BlackBerry and Apple phones and tablets. View Full Article »
Mac OS X Lion Password Flaws Let Hackers Lock You Out
September 20, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
In a matter of seconds, an attacker can change your Mac password and lock you out of your computer View Full Article »
Pocket Computer Could Someday Eliminate Passwords
August 18, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
"Pico" could solve all your password problems … if it existed. View Full Article »
Pricey Software Cracks Mac Passwords
July 26, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Passware can steal your Mac passwords in minutes, even if your computer is encrypted or asleep. View Full Article »
Hotmail Bans Easy-to-Guess Passwords
July 15, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Time to update your password from "11111." View Full Article »
Even Hackers Use Terrible Passwords
June 22, 2011, Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
Would a hacker use '123456' as his password? Yes View Full Article »
How to Create and Remember Super-Secure Passwords
March 31, 2011, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor
Passwords are your front line of defense, so you’d better have some good ones View Full Article »
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