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Explore Technology industry trends & insights from TMT Predictions 2013. Watch videos, listen to podcasts, download reports, and more. Deloitte predicts that in 2013 more than 90 percent of user-generated passwords, even those considered strong by IT departments, will be vulnerable to hacking.
Inadequate password protection may result in billions of dollars of losses, declining confidence in Internet transactions and significant damage to the reputations of the companies compromised by attacks.
As the value of the information protected by passwords continues to grow, attracting more hack attempts, high-value sites will likely require additional forms of authentication.
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The most common causes of inappropriate behavior or suspected ‘password hacks’ are: - Using a generic username and password for all students. - Failure to use unique passwords for each student. - The teacher creates student accounts with a different usernames but the same password for all students or a standard approach to assigning passwords that allows students to easily guess other students’ passwords. - Students telling other students (or siblings) their username and password. - Failing to log out of accounts or using ‘Remember my password’ on shared computers.
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Macworld Australia is the premier Australian source for news, reviews, help, how-tos, and expert opinion for the Australian Apple market, including the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod.
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LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach.
Another day, another shed-load of ... We also encourage you, for your own personal data security, to consider changing password(s) on any other sites on which you use the same or similar password(s). That's also good advice, but a few more words would have made it even better: if you've used the same password on multiple sites, ===> change the passwords on those sites so that they are all different. <===
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What are some of the world's most popular passwords? If you're thinking your 123456 password is foolproof, you better think again.
An ongoing brute-force attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall.
If you have a web service that supports remote users, you will know that malevolent login attempts are an everyday occurrence.
But hosting providers worldwide are reporting an onslaught at well ...
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San Francisco-based document sharing site Scribd has admitted to a network intrusion.
Details are scant, but fortunately a notification published by the company suggests that no more than 1% of ...
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An Apple account exploit allows anyone with your email address and date of birth to reset your Apple ID and iCloud account password. First reported by The Verge, the exploit use...
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Online note-taking site Evernote is the latest high-profile Web firm to get hacked after the company reset all of its users passwords after it discovered and blocked suspicious activity ...
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You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Thanks to an explosion of personal information being stored in the cloud, tricking customer service agents into resetting passwords has never been easier. ===> All a hacker has to do is use personal information that’s publicly available on one service to gain entry into another. <=== Big THANKS to my online friend Kevin https://twitter.com/kevin_corbett for having shared this link with me Read more, a MUST: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/
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Passwords are like undergarments: it’s good to keep them hidden, and you should change them often. Likewise, if someone sees your password it may leave you feeling exposed and uncomfortable. As we ...
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The microblogging giant has warned news outlets that "these attacks will continue," particularly against high profile media organizations.
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Download the 2013 #DBIR from Verizon for the latest on data security threats.
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After a widely publicised hack or data breach, you'll often find "password check" sites springing up.
Some of them are legitimate, but other password check sites are as bogus as they sound on th... Short, sweet, and clear. - Don't click login links in emails. - Check the address bar. - And watch out for the HTTPS (secure HTTP) padlock in the address bar whenever you are entering PII of any sort, from passwords to account numbers.
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A study by Ofcom, the UK communications watchdog, has unearthed some appalling statistics which reveal just how badly the general public treat password security. 55% of net users use the same password for most, if not all, websites. When will they learn?
There is a lot of interesting discussion going on at the moment across the interwebs on the intention of the latest string of Brute Force attacks, much of which That finding comes from Arbor Networks, which said that attackers had compromised numerous PHP Web applications, such as Joomla, as well as many WordPress sites, many of which were using an outdated version of the TimThumb plug-in. After compromising the sites, attackers then loaded toolkits onto the sites that turned them into DDoS attack launch pads. – Information Week Security
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Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.
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Identity theft is a threat that everyone takes seriously until they actually have to do something about it: in a recent survey of adults, 38 percent said they would rather clean the toilet than try and remember their passwords.
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Evernote, the online note-taking service, has says that it has suffered a serious security breach which saw hackers steal usernames, associated email addresses and encrypted passwords. What's not good news is that the hackers now have access to the usernames and email addresses of Evernote customers. It is easy to imagine how this information could be abused - for instance, the hackers could send out spam emails to those users claiming to come from Evernote, and trick them into visiting a malicious website.
Are passwords dead? According to Wired's Mat Honan, they ought to be. Honan is the technology journalist who was hacked last year. In just a few minutes, his entire digital life, including photos of his young daughter, disappeared. If it can happen to a tech-savvy writer like Honan, it can happen to anyone.
Via Berend de Jonge, juandoming
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As the value of the information protected by passwords continues to grow, attracting more hack attempts, high-value sites will likely require additional forms of authentication.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Passwords
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Passwords