A 43-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced to ten years in prison yesterday in Missouri Western District Court for his role in a scheme that involved stealing credentials from various websites and using them to obtain access to people's bank accounts.
Sael Mustafa, 43, of Gladstone, Mo., and a citizen of Jorda... |
9 July 2011
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An analysis of the user database recently leaked from Sony Pictures reveals that consumers have very poor password habits.Last week, the Lulz Security (LulzSec) hacking outfit broke into SonyPictures.com and obtained access to a database containing over one million accounts.The hackers leaked a portion of this databa... |
8 June 2011
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People who analyzed the recently leaked rootkit.com user database warn that the compromise also has implications for accounts on other sites due to password reuse. A week ago, the Anonymous collective hacked into the systems of a security firm called HBGary which threatened to expose its high-ranking members.The grou... |
14 February 2011
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A security researcher who analyzed data from two recently leaked databases concluded that the rate of password reuse is higher than previously believed.Joseph Bonneau, a PhD student with the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, analyzed user passwords stolen from Gawker and rootkit.com.T... |
11 February 2011
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A survey conducted by antivirus vendor BitDefender revealed that only five percent of people use digits or special characters in their passwords and that sixty percent use single-case-only access codes.The conclusions are the result of a questionnaire taken by 1,000 random individuals, half men, half women, from 16 c... |
6 November 2010
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Twitter warns that a recent mass account hijacking, which affected users of the micro-blogging platform, is the result of compromised third-party torrent sites. Unknown attackers were allegedly able to commandeer numerous Twitter accounts, because their owners reused passwords over multiple sites.A few days ago, the ... |
3 February 2010
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According to a survey conducted by antivirus vendor PC Tools, 25 percent of Web users do not fully understand threats that spread through zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software. Meanwhile, women are more savvy than men when it comes to reusing passwords, despite the fact that the latter are better informed abou... |
4 September 2009
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