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Case filed against former Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela over softwa
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Guwahati Police on Friday registered a case against former Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela for allegedly not sharing passwords of a couple of email ids before leaving the office.
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Microsoft discovers 44 million accounts using breached passwords
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Dec 8 (ANI): In a major security issue, 44 million Microsoft accounts were discovered using breached user names and passwords.
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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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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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You can now sign in to Gmail without linking Chrome
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
California [United States], September 26 (ANI): Breaking away from the worry of having Google websites linked even after logging out on shared devices, the company has announced nifty new features for Chrome 70.
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Keep forgetting passwords? Here's why
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Sep 6 (ANI): It's well-known that text-based passwords are hard to remember and people prefer simple, unsecure passwords.
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New authentication method will use hand gestures as password
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Arizona [United States], August 9 (ANI): Researchers have invented a new method of authentication which will identify a person's hand gestures or fingers making a motion in the air to authenticate their identity.
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Using Twitter? Change your password immediately
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
San Francisco [United States] May 4 (ANI): A major bug in Twitter's hashing process has exposed the password of over 330 million of its users. The company has now asked all of its users to change their passwords immediately.
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Twitter finds bug, suggests users to change password
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
San Francisco [USA], May 4 (ANI): Twitter has recommended all users to change their passwords after a bug was found that stored passwords in an internal log.
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