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Diablo 3 real-money auctions accessible only with authenticator

It seems that the long awaited Diablo 3 real-money auction house will finally become a reality, as Blizzard has changed its Terms of Use to make all players who want to access …

Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords

Like everyone this week, I learned about a huge file of password hashes that had been leaked. The 120MB zip file contained 6,458,020 SHA-1 hashes of passwords for end-user …

Tips for safe password use

After the news about the theft of millions of user passwords from the business-based networking site LinkedIn, dating site eHarmony and Last.fm, users should be extra vigilant …

The effect of data breaches on consumers

Commenting on a Ponemon Report showing that 72 per cent of consumers who have been notified of a data breach at a company they had dealt were dissatisfied with the …

Last.fm confirms password leak

And Last.fm makes three. Following the revelations that the data leaked by an unknown individual on a Russian forum contained user passwords for business social network …

The ramifications of the LinkedIn password leak

LinkedIn has finally confirmed that some of the passwords that were leaked yesterday correspond to LinkedIn accounts, and has issued a list of steps that they are taking in …

eHarmony confirms leak of their users’ passwords

News that an unknown individual leaked what appeared to be a batch of 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on a Russian forum and asked for help in decrypting them spread like fire …

Mitt Romney’s private email account hacked?

The private Hotmail and Dropbox accounts of Mitt Romney, Massachusetts governor and Republican Party presumptive nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 …

Voice biometrics for mobile devices

Nuance announced Dragon ID, a voice biometrics technology that lets people quickly and easily unlock mobile devices and consumer electronics just by using their voice. Dragon …

Over-55s pick stronger passwords than youngsters

Despite the often repeated recommendations by security experts, most users regularly fail to choose strong enough passwords. Joseph Bonneau, a computer scientist and …

SaaSID launches Cloud Application Manager

SaaSID unveiled Cloud Application Manager (CAM), security software that provides single sign on (SSO), application shaping and auditing of any applications accessed using a …

Mistakes that led to the massive Utah data breach

A little over a month ago, the largest data breach in Utah history resulted in the compromise of Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health …

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