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Mind the scam: How to shop safely online on prominent sale days?
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Nov 14 (ANI): While online sales come with great alluring offers, they also come with the risk of frauds in e-commerce vicinity.
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Railways introduce an OTP-based refund system for e-tickets booked through
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Oct 29 (ANI): The Indian Railways has initiated a new One Time Password (OTP) based refund system for tickets booked through RCTC authorised agents, the rail ministry said on Tuesday.
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Kaspersky finds 60 pc rise in users hit by password stealers
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): The use of malware designed to harvest consumers' digital data has seen a significant rise this year, according to global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab.
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Google kept some passwords stored in plain text for years
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], May 22 (ANI): Google has admitted that it stored passwords of some of its G Suite customers unhashed for years.
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Useless to have password expiration policies, says Microsoft
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 25 (ANI): The annoying reminders by the IT team to change your system password are pointless, after all. Tech giant Microsoft has admitted that periodic password expiration rules are not required and make systems more vulnerable to hacking.
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'123456' continues to be the worst password of all times
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], April 23 (ANI): If you are the owner of one of the 23.2 million accounts using the extremely obvious '123456' for a password, there's nothing to be proud of.
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Facebook will no longer ask for email passwords for account verification
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], April 3 (ANI): Facebook asked its new users for email passwords in order to verify their accounts. The company has announced that it is ending the malpractice in light of users' privacy.
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Facebook bug exposed your passwords in plaintext
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Mar 22 (ANI): Facebook acknowledged that a bug caused hundreds of millions of user passwords, some dating back to 2012, to be stored as readable text internally.
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More than 772 million email addresses leaked in Collection #1 data breach
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
California [United States], January 17 (ANI): Welcome the first big data breach of 2019. Data stored on cloud storage service MEGA has been reportedly compromised, resulting in more than 87 GB of passwords and email addresses getting leaked.
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These are the dumbest passwords of 2018
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
California [United States], December 14 (ANI): Some people never learn. Software company SplashData has released its annual list of the top 100 worst passwords used in this year, and unsurprisingly, the list is not surprising.
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After data breach, Quora logs out all users, says failed to meet responsib
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
California [USA], Dec 4(ANI): Quora has logged out all its users following unauthorized access to one of their systems by a malicious third party. In a statement the question-and-answer website stated that the data of their 100 million strong user base has been "compromised" after the breach
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Stringent password can prevent fraud: Study
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C [U.S.A], Oct 15 (ANI): Is it exhausting for you to come up with a new password every time you make a new account somewhere? Well, it turns out that the all-too-common practice of using the same email address/password combination to log into multiple websites can be damaging.
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