Tagged: Passwords & News
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LivingSocial cyberattacked – users urged to reset their passwords News
27.04.2013 Amazon-owned daily deals site LivingSocial has been hacked, with hackers gaining access to the private details of potentially more than 50m people, including their names, email... -
Evernote is latest cloud giant to be hacked, instigates password reset News
04.03.2013 Cloud-based personal organiser Evernote has confirmed that it has discovered and blocked suspicious activity that it deems an organised and co-ordinated attack. The news comes...Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Digital Media, Data Management, Apps -
61pc of tablet computer owners have shared their PIN - survey News
28.02.2013 One-third of mobile phone or tablet owners have failed to protect their devices with a PIN or password, and most tablet owners have even shared their PIN with someone else, a... -
Hackers at war … with themselves! Rustle League claims Anonymous Twitter hack News
21.02.2013 Hacker group Rustle League has claimed to have hacked the Twitter account of better known hacker collective Anonymous, @Anon_Central, which has 160,000 followers. -
Hackers bite into Burger King’s Twitter account News
19.02.2013 Hackers who accessed Burger King’s Twitter account and tweeted that the fast-food giant had been sold to rival McDonald’s prompted McDonald’s to issue its own tweet, saying it... -
Scorned exes may well share intimate content online - survey News
04.02.2013 Nearly all (94pc) of adults in the US believe their data and revealing photos are safe with their partners, but 13pc of adults have had their personal content leaked to others... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 5-1 News
20.12.2012 Today, we complete our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific...Categories: Social Media, Science, Research, Life Sciences, Engineering, Development, Design, Bio Tech -
RAF forced to reset passwords following Prince William’s photo-op-turned-security-breach News
21.11.2012 What started as a simple photo-op showcasing a day in the life of Flight Lieutenant Wales (better known as Prince William) ended up as a security gaffe that has left the RAF... -
Weekend news round-up: Not such an appy economy, the death of the password News
19.11.2012 In our gathering of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, the quick buck that app developers thought they'd make from the apps economy is proving elusive; Twitter's...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Security, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Development, Design, Apps -
Adobe shuts Connectusers.com forum as it probes security breach News
15.11.2012 Software maker Adobe has pulled its Connectusers.com forum database offline as it investigates a security breach that exposed password information about users of its... -
Skype security hole made it possible for anyone to hijack your account News
14.11.2012 Skype has moved to temporarily disable a password reset page that made it easy for anyone to basically take over another user’s Skype account if they knew what email address is... -
Twitter apologises for resetting a larger number of passwords than intended News
08.11.2012 Twitter has publicly apologised to its users after unintentionally resetting the passwords of a larger number of accounts beyond those believed to have been compromised by a...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
10 of the spookiest cyber attacks of 2012 (infographic) News
31.10.2012 For the day that’s in it, a new infographic runs down a list of 10 of the scariest cyber attacks this past year. -
A beginner’s guide to thwarting hackers (infographic) News
20.10.2012 Hackers can cause a lot of damage, but more knowledge about how they operate allows consumers to be better able to protect themselves against cyber attacks, as a new infographic... -
How safe is your PIN? (infographic) News
12.10.2012 Most of us have heard and read stories about password security, but what about personal identification numbers (PIN)s? A new infographic takes a closer look at those four digits... -
Irish firm Daon to pilot US secure identity scheme News
28.09.2012 Daon, the Irish biometrics and authentication specialist, has been chosen to spearhead a US government-sponsored pilot project to develop secure online identities for consumers. -
Secure and hack your Facebook and Twitter (infographic) News
18.09.2012 A new infographic dives deeply into Facebook and Twitter to expose how an individual’s accounts on the social networks can be hacked - and secured. -
Employees say ‘NO’ to handing over social media passwords to employers News
21.08.2012 An overwhelming majority of workers surveyed in the UK say they are not willing to give potential employers their Facebook passwords.Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, Legal, Security, Social Media, Software & Web Development -
Google fails to delete all Street View 'payload' data News
27.07.2012 Google has admitted that it failed to delete all “payload data” collected by its Street View vehicles and that it aims to proceed with destroying the remaining data.Categories: Wireless Communications, Security, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Internet, Data Management -
Gmail, Hotmail, MSN and AOL details found among data from Yahoo! password breach News
13.07.2012 Thousands of email addresses from a number of other services have been found in the data posted by hacker collective D33Ds Company, which were acquired through hacking Yahoo!...Categories: Web, Social Media, Security, Networks, Internet, Financial Results, Database, Data Management