A security researcher rebuts Microsoft and Google's claims that a massive industry-wide phishing operation was responsible for stealing the recently leaked webmail credentials. New arguments point to the discovered lists being the work of keyloggers.A few days ago, Microsoft confirmed the authenticity of a list ... |
8 October 2009
07:58 GMT |
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An analysis of the around 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail passwords that have been exposed in the wild has concluded that the majority of users still employ weak passwords. The average password length is eight characters, but only 6% of them contain both alpha-numeric and special characters.A few days ago, Microsoft conf... |
7 October 2009
05:17 GMT |
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South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford faces a lot of pressure, both in his personal and political life, after news broke out of an extramarital affair he was having with a woman from Buenos Aires. Being blamed by the media for the leak, the 41-year-old mistress told an Argentinian news outlet that it was actually the ... |
1 July 2009
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Three female agents working for a real estate agency from Rockingham, North Carolina, have been charged with unauthorized access of computer information. According to the authorities, the three women hacked into the e-mail account of a rival realtor and accessed confidential business messages. Kim Dawn Whitley, 40, ... |
7 April 2009
07:52 GMT |
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