Microsoft is hard at work to enhance its Cloud productivity offerings with new capabilities enabling administrators to easily reset passwords. The current password experience in Office 365 is not exactly optimal, to use a euphemism. However, this will change in the future. There’s no telling just exactly when... |
30 August 2011
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Facebook is working on making more security-related features available to its mobile clients, including the ability to reset passwords and to report content."As more people use mobile devices, we want all of our security tools available everywhere you use Facebook. A few of our engineers have been working hard to bri... |
9 August 2011
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Epic Games has reset passwords across its entire forum after hackers managed to obtain access to the underlying database.An announcement of the hack posted on the forum last week includes a message from the Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney which reads:"Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. We're wo... |
13 June 2011
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Northrop Grumman, the second largest U.S. government contractor, has abruptly suspended remote access to its network last week, raising suspicions of a cyber attack.Fox News quotes a confidential source inside the company who claims the suspension came without any advance notice on May 26."We went through a domain na... |
2 June 2011
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The company operating the eHarmony.com online dating website has reset some account passwords after learning of a security breach on one of its systems.According to independent security reporter Brian Krebs, the company decided to take this proactive measure after a sale offer for the site's database appeared on... |
11 February 2011
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Online dating website PlentyOfFish has reset user passwords after hackers managed to extract people's registration information by exploiting vulnerabilities in the platform.According to independent security journalist Brian Krebs, the compromise was first reported by an Argentinian hacker named Chris "Ch" Russ&o... |
1 February 2011
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SourceForge, the world's largest open source software repository, has reset the password for all of its users following a successful attack against its infrastructure.The SourceForge team discovered the security breach on Thursday when exploits were found uploaded on several servers.A preliminary investigation r... |
29 January 2011
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LinkedIn has taken the preventive step of resetting passwords on accounts that shared email addresses with the ones compromised at Gawker Media a few days ago.The decision comes after the high-profile compromise, which resulted in a database of 1.3 million accounts being leaked, was directly linked to a mass spam att... |
15 December 2010
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Security researchers from Websense warn that a new round of spam emails carrying malicious attachments pose as password reset notifications sent by Facebook employees.An example of such an email bears a subject of "Facebook Password Reset Confirmation" and its From field lists "Facebook Security-Manager, Sylvia Eary"... |
21 September 2010
10:55 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new malware distribution campaign masquerading as Facebook password reset notification e-mails is making the rounds. The attached .ZIP archives contain a Trojan downloader, which is used to deploy scareware on the compromised systems.The rogue emails have their From field spoofed in o... |
30 October 2009
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After the release of the new 2.8.3 security update, WordPress faces a dangerous vulnerability that can lock out blog owners from their admin account. Using the online password reset function, hackers can remotely reset the admin password.This issue was first reported by Laurent Gaffie on August 11 in a mailing l... |
11 August 2009
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It was not any particular vulnerability that a French hacker exploited in order to get his hands on Twitter confidential corporate documents. According to his own account, it was patience and determination combined with the inherent security weaknesses in today's Web 2.0 ecosystem. TechCrunch, one of the first ... |
21 July 2009
05:31 GMT |
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A new cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting the Facebook social networking website has been disclosed on the XSSed project's website. The flaw allows for injection of potentially malicious code. The XSSed project tracks XSS vulnerabilities and its archive contains over 30,000 of documented such flaws affe... |
5 January 2009
10:08 GMT |
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