If you have online accounts, you’re going to start seeing a lot of two new technologies that help keep your personal data secure and private online. One calls upon your friends to prove that you’re you if you need to recover a forgotten password. The other lets you create and use a password on a [...]
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How to protect yourself from any data breach
Data breaches are becoming the norm. From Zappos to Playstation Network to Global Payments to LinkedIn, it seems like there’s another one every day. There really is a black market for your data: the Identity Theft Assistance Center reports that 8.1 million adults in the U.S. suffered identity theft in 2011, each of whom lost [...]
4 tips to protect yourself from the LinkedIn password breach
Reports surfaced today that a Russian hacker downloaded 6.46 million LinkedIn users’ passwords. Even though the passwords were encrypted, hackers have already cracked more than 300,000 of them and are enlisting others to help decrypt the rest. The weakest passwords are the easiest to crack, but hackers can figure out even stronger passwords with enough [...]