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BoingBoing has the 500 worst passwords. We’ll sum it up: if your password is password, 123456, or 696969, say goodbye to your identity.
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Reader Receives Three Phishing Attempts In One Week
DoomNasty tells us he’s been hit three times in the past week with phishing attempts. The first two were text messages from Alarion Bank, asking him to call 1-877-240-6149 “to find out why my debit/atm...
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Yahoo! Still Exists, Says Internets Are Safer Than They Used To Be
A Congressional panel is looking into drafting new online privacy laws, but Yahoo says such legislation isn’t necessary because the e-industry has done such a bang-up job of regulating itself. A...
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Microsoft Goes After Malicious Ad Suppliers
If you visited the New York Times website last week, you may have been surprised to have your browsing interrupted by one of those scammy “we’re scanning your computer for viruses OH NO YOU HAVE A...
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Microsoft Turns A Blind Eye To Phishing Scams On Xbox LIVE
William wrote to us this weekend to point out how little Microsoft does to fight phishing attacks on their hugely popular Xbox LIVE network. It’s unfortunate they don’t take this sort of crime more...
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Developer Finds Security Hole In SMC Router Provided By Time Warner Cable
If you didn’t provide your own wireless router when you signed up for Internet access from Time Warner, you may have been given an SMC-branded modem/router combo that turns out is ridiculously easy to...
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Why Phishing Works Even If You're Not Normally Stupid
If you spend a lot of time online, you’re probably aware of phishing scams and know what to look out for. In other words, you’re not one of those ignorant types who clicks on links and starts entering...
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LastPass: Hackers Maybe Stole Info From 1.25 Million Accounts
Listen up if you’ve got an account with LastPass, a company that is designed to keep your passwords to multiple sites safe: The company says hackers may have gotten into their database and snatched...
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Would You Entrust The Safety Of Your Online Information To A Wave Of The Hand?
The future is here, folks. Soon it’ll be just like we imagined as kids — holodecks, computers as thin as thin can be and there better be some hovercrafts arriving soon. But even as technology marches...
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1-In-5 Internet Users Always Read Privacy Policies, But That Doesn’t Mean...
(Bruno Pieroni)Though everyone is always saying “You’ve got to read the fine print,” most of us don’t do it. According to a new study, only 16% of Internet users claim to always read privacy policies...
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Report: Almost Half Of American Adults Were Hacked In The Last Year
If you’ve felt like there hasn’t been a day in the last year without a warning of some new hack on big businesses and services you use and have had to change your passwords and keep an eye on your...
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Google Replacing CAPTCHAs With “I’m Not A Robot” Check Box
Almost every Internet user has come across a CAPTCHA security check — you know, the thing where you have to enter in a jumbled set of letters and numbers, often with lines drawn through them — and had...
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Security Vulnerability In New Kardashian Websites Coughs Up User Info For...
If you’re not up to date on all your reality TV star news, perhaps you aren’t aware that the Kardashian/Jenner sisters recently launched new mobile apps and redesigned websites to stay even more...
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Crowdfunding Site Patreon Hacked, 15GB Of Donor Info Dumped Online
Patreon, a website that allows donors to give regularly to sites, artists, projects and other creators, yesterday evening that it’d been hit by a hack attack that accessed some registered names, email...
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Banks Ditching Online Security Images Some Experts Call “Worse Than Useless”
When you log into your bank account online, you might see an image of a birdhouse, or a teapot, or some other object you selected when you signed up. Those pictures are supposed to help keep a...
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Toy Maker VTech Hires Cyber Forensic Team To Help Beef Up Security After Data...
After a data breach at popular kids’ toy maker VTech that put the personal information of nearly five million parents and children at risk, as well as reportedly exposing many of their photos and chat...
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IRS Relaunches “Get Transcript” Online Tool, Promises It’s More Secure
A year after the Internal Revenue Service said hackers used stolen Social Security numbers and other information gleaned from the agency’s system in an attempt to access hundreds of thousands of...
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DOJ: Russian Intelligence Officers Hired Hackers To Attack Yahoo’s Network
Back in September, Yahoo confirmed a massive data breach that affected at least 500 million users that dated back to 2014. At the time, the company said it suspected a “state-sponsored” actor did it....
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AIG Now Sells Cybersecurity Insurance That Covers Online Bullying, Extortion
Most big companies have some sort of insurance to cover their butts in a world where data breaches are an everyday occurrence, but now AIG is joining the ranks of insurers offering (wealthy) consumers...
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