Archive for the ‘Password Hacks – News’ Category


Vote For Me, Vote For Me, Vote For Me… Hacker Helps Enrique Pea Nieto Win Mexican Presidential Election

How To Make Your Vote REALLY Count In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Colombian hacker, Andrs Seplveda, who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence boasted of his ability to hack into campaign networks and manipulate opinion. “My job was to do actions of dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumours the whole dark […]

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Finally, America Exports SOMETHING To China – 4M Federal Employees Data Hacked…

China US Trade Imbalance Cured?   CNN reports that, “Four million current and former federal employees, from nearly every government agency, might have had their personal information stolen by Chinese hackers, U.S. investigators said. U.S. officials believe it could be the biggest breach ever of the government’s computer networks. China called the allegation irresponsible.” The […]

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50 Shades Of Embarrassment – All Your Secret Desires Hacked

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” André Malraux – How does a guy born in 1901 know so much about internet privacy? Here Is The Headline – I Am Sure Most People Won’t Appreciate It, But For Some, GASP! 50 Shades Of Embarrassment – All Your Secret Desires Hacked click2houston.com, […]

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NPR: How To Create Stronger Passwords

You Might Want To Take Another Pass At Your Passwords “It’s just too easy for hackers to figure out usernames and passwords like ‘password’ or ‘123457.’ Those are some of my previous passwords,” he said. In short, passwords have, in some cases, undermined their own security intent. You’d think a librarian … Read more on […]

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Atlassian’s “HipChat” Breached

Hackers breach password database at Atlassian’s “HipChat” collaboration service While HipChat passwords are one-way encrypted (hashed and salted), as an added precaution we have triggered a password reset for all affected HipChat user accounts and all Atlassian services that share the same email address. If you have not received … Read more on Naked Security

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Forbes Magazine On The Anthem Data Breach

6 Ways To Protect Yourself After The Anthem Data Breach You simply can’t remember all of those usernames and passwords, so chances are you’re using the same username and password, or you’;re changing the passwords slightly by adding an “*” or “#” or changing around the capitalization. That's not secure, as … Read more on Forbes

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Who Needs A Password Manager?

Survey: Hardly Anybody Uses a Password Manager Rather than directly ask participants whether they recycle the same password over and over, it queried participants indirectly. 74 percent admitted they logged in to six or more sites daily, and 30 percent logged in to more than ten secure sites. Yet … Read more on PC Magazine

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SSL encryption gives a false sense of Security

How SSL encryption gives a false sense of security With the Heartbleed security flaw, cybercriminals can trick a host server into sending them sensitive information, including even the private encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt information. Armed with these keys, hackers are able to access … Read more on CMO

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How the Pentagon plans to replace the password

How the Pentagon plans to replace the password The password is one of the weakest forms of security. DARPA, the Pentagon's research arm, wants to solve this problem by turning people and their behavior into passwords through its Active Authentication program. Read more on Christian Science Monitor

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Are You Overlooking These 5 Critical IT Security Measures?

Are You Overlooking These 5 Critical IT Security Measures? The most common security passwords are 123456 and password. Common sense tells you that these are easily hackable and shouldn't be used, but we continue to use them year after year. If your employees use these types of passwords for their personal … Read more on Business […]

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