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We’re not going to dive in harp on you about the importance of strong passwords. But there is not a week goes by we don’t receive an email from one of our readers who is panicked because his/her Webmail account was hacked.
Truth be known, no hacker is going to bother with an unknown person’s [...]
As more and more of our personal information is being pushed to the cloud, it’s absolutely essential that you re-evaluate your passwords soon. Most people think that the cloud is not secure and the’re partially right. But it’s not because the cloud is not secure, it’s because people insist on using weak passwords and then [...]
Jean is concerned about hackers stealing her Outlook Express passwords
I have Windows XP. I am wondering where email addresses are stored other than in ‘stored user name & passwords’ via the control panel and User Accounts? Mine shows it blank…no passwords saved, yet when I ran the SIW program (System information for Windows [...]
Dear hackers: The U.S. government wants you. Or, at the very least, the Department of Defense’s research wing wants to pay you to help it block cyber threats, a project manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said Thursday.
Former hacker Peiter Zatko announced the start of a fund-the-hackers program, called Cyber Fast Track, in [...]
A “hacker” stole millions of names and email addresses
–were you a victim too?
Information is the new gold. Information about you is being collected and collated and, unfortunately, shared with companies and organizations without your knowledge, permission, or consent. The companies who collect this information are companies you do business with and [...]
Do you use passwords like 12345 or djones525 or katybelle1234? In the age of “the cloud” it’s more important than ever that you use strong and secure passwords.
Server security has gotten better and better, encryption has gotten stronger and stronger, but all that means nothing if your password is something like [...]
