Given the recent spate of data breaches, it has become necessary to secure your online accounts. These tools will help you figure out if your account has been hacked, and if your email addresses and passwords are stolen. Read more…More about Mashabl…
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Facebook stored passwords in plain text for hundreds of millions of users
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ passwords were stored in plain text, completely searchable by Facebook employees for years.
Some users had their passwords stored in plain text as early as 2012, according to a senior Facebook source who spoke to KrebsOnSecurity. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that somewhere between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users were affected. More than 20,000 Facebook employees would have had access to these plain text passwords.
Shortly after KrebsOnSecurity published its story, Facebook posted its own statement by its vice president of engineering, security and privacy, Pedro Canahuati. He states that the company first discovered the issue during “a routine security review in January.” Read more…
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View More Facebook stored passwords in plain text for hundreds of millions of users‘Donald’ cracks the annual worst-passwords list
“donald” cracked SplashData’s annual top 100 list of the most common passwords. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Donald Trump, Passwords, 2018, and Password Security
View More ‘Donald’ cracks the annual worst-passwords listHow to concoct (and remember!) an insanely secure password — Clarification Please
How do you make an insanely secure, but also memorable password?
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Microsoft Edge is killing off passwords with a big new update
Microsoft Edge just got a little easier to use.
The web browser developed by Microsoft announced yesterday in a blog post that users no longer need passwords to log onto their favorite websites. All they need is Microsoft’s new web authenticator to g…
Secure your data with this password manager that’s on sale
If you’re still using the same password you used in college, then you don’t have the right to mock babyboomers for not understanding technology. In this age of ransomware and leakage, there’s no excuse for playing it fast and loose with your precious data. And though you can find any number of password managers online, RoboForm Everywhere is among the top — and it’s currently on sale.
After receiving an A+ from the Better Business Bureau and getting the 2017 TopTenReviews Excellence Award, it’s hard to keep describing how great this program is, but we’ll try. It automatically remembers different passwords for every site you use, and logs you in with a single click, while creating a random strong and unique password for each site. Read more…
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Creating a strong password requires a complex combo of letters, numbers, and special characters. Oh, and you should be able to remember it.
Of course, that’s the hard part. Most of us have lost hours of our lives pounding the keyboard trying password after password, before giving in and clicking “forgot password.” At which point you get the “new password cannot be the same as old password and also needs to include a hieroglyphic now.” It’s a tough world out there. Read more…
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View More Stop trying to remember passwords and use this app that will auto-fill them all instead‘Starwars,’ ‘football,’ and 23 more horrific passwords people actually used in 2017
2017 was a year of fake news, security breaches, bitcoin, net neutrality, Elon Musk, and more.
And with all the new news came a slew of horrible passwords. Security software company SplashData has compiled a list of the most commonly used passw…