Tag: PASSWORD PROTECTION

Share We understand, better than most maybe, that it can be maddening to conjure and remember a bunch of passwords for a bunch of online services. Still, we manage. Granted, we do recycle some passwords, but we make sure never to register for a site with an e-mail address and that particular address's password. Unfortunately, according to a new study from BitDefender, 75-percent of Web users do ...

Yesterday, reports emerged that 10,000 Hotmail account addresses and passwords had been posted to the site PasteBin.com. Today, BBC News revealed that it has discovered another incriminating list containing log-in information for 20,000 additional e-mail addresses. The new batch, though, not only includes information from compromised Hotmail accounts, but also from Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and ...

Kevin Andreyo, an education technology specialist in Reading, PA, came across a startling discovery Monday after vetting himself on the search engine Pipl. Inspired by the PCWorld article "People Search Engines: They know Your Dark Secrets . . . And Tell Anyone," Andreyo searched his e-mail address and found a list that included his Comcast username and password, as well as those for 8,000 other ...