Posts Tagged ‘password’


Anthem Hack: Could This Be the End of User Name and Password?

This Could Be the End of User Name and Password Early investigations in the Anthem case suggest foreign hackers used the user name and password of a company executive to get inside Anthem's system and make off with personal data for 80 million people, including names, addresses and Social Security … Read more on TIME

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10 Million Passwords and Usernames

A Security Researcher Just Dumped 10 Million Real Passwords Security researcher Mark Burnett released a torrent of 10 million passwords and usernames, a trove of comparatively anonymized data that he sourced from open websites from around the web. The passwords and usernames are older and most probably … Read more on TechCrunch  

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What The USS Enterprise Can Teach You About Password Safety

Can You Trust Password Strength Meters? Here is the short answer… no. Let’s use the USS Enterprise as an example. Mark Stockley downloaded the top 10,000 passwords and found this example at the 158th most common password: ncc1701 it looks hard, but it is registration number of the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek series. […]

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