“Jambox wireless speaker creator Jawbone is singing the blues today. It alerted users early this morning to a hack on its MyTalk network that left names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords compromised.” The MyTalk network is platform where they can update, find and download apps for Jawbone devices. A customer has voluntarily reported he hasContinue reading “MyTalk network security breached”
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[Tech] Electronic ring or USB drive as password
Google Plans to implement a secure way to login into your accounts by using USB drives or electronic rings as password rather than the traditional text passwords. As revealed by Wired, Google VP of security Eric Grosse and engineer Mayank Upadhyay have outlined several ways to rethink the traditional password. The two are responding toContinue reading “[Tech] Electronic ring or USB drive as password”
How to make a good password
Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar. An algorithm developed by Ashwini Rao and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, makes light work of cracking long passwords which make grammatical sense as a whole phrase, even if theyContinue reading “How to make a good password”
Was YOUR Yahoo password hacked? Here’s how to find out
Last night the news broke that Yahoo had a security breach and 435,000 usernames and passwords had been hacked. Particularly troubling? The login credentials are in plaintext, not even encrypted. The biggest question users have when this happens: have MY username and password been released? A number of services can answer that. One is ShouldContinue reading “Was YOUR Yahoo password hacked? Here’s how to find out”
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