LinkedIn Was Breached. Now What Do You Do?
Encoded passwords for one out of 25 LinkedIn users were posted to a Russian hacker site. As hackers work to crack those passwords, LinkedIn users would do well to quickly change their log-in...
View ArticleLinkedIn Tweaks Calendar Feature to Stop Taking Meeting Notes
LinkedIn said it would stop taking users' meeting notes from their calendars on Wednesday, after security researchers discovered that the company was transmitting sensitive data back to its Web servers...
View ArticleYahoo Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Users
Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that hackers had breached its systems and posted online a file of 400,000 usernames and passwords, but it said the file was old and that only 5 percent were still valid. The...
View ArticleWhat You Can Do to Better Protect Your Apple Account
There is one quick lesson to be learned from the break-in of a journalist's Apple iCloud account: segregate your Apple services. That is an option, even though Apple recommends using one universal ID...
View ArticleTwitter Says It Was Not Hacked
Many Twitter users received e-mails on Thursday asking them to reset the passwords to their Twitter accounts, spurring concerns that their Twitter account, or that Twitter itself, may have been...
View ArticleReaders Respond: Password Hygiene and Headaches
An article about creating hard-to-crack passwords generated a wide range of responses, including some more good tips.
View ArticleHacker Claims to Have Breached Adobe
A hacker claimed to have dumped hundreds of records for Adobe employees and users of the company's software, including people at Google, NASA and the United States military, as well as academic...
View ArticleTwitter Hacked: Data for 250,000 Users May Be Stolen
Twitter announced late Friday that it had been hit by a "sophisticated attack" in which hackers may have accessed usernames, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords for 250,000 Twitter users. The...
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