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Human mind evolved for many millions years keeping the sense of risk that advice ed us stay alive running from predators and hiding from computer threats. On one side, this million-year experience makes our sense of risk a pretty good one, since it assistance ed us to survive during many millions years of evolution, but on the other side, the term risk sounds a little bit exaggerated especially when quoted by Net security expert engineer s of today.
So I joined MySpace about a week ago and was already annoyed at the way they sent me my password over email. But then, just a few days later, I got an email with my first MySpace message / friend request from someone named Riley whose profile picture is [...]
I picked on search engine Mahalo as an example of a company emailing its customers passwords. I mentioned how having your password floating around openly on mail servers can defeat the purpose of having a password in the first place. Mahalo’s founder and CEO, Jason Calacanis, joined the discussion and some good thoughts were [...]
Being that I’m studying for my bachelor’s degree in information technology security, I often find myself experimenting with certain computer security measures and countermeasures. Currently I’m enrolled in a class that focuses on computer and data forensics. Because of this, I have access to trials of some interesting computer forensics programs such as Access [...]
Let’s face it; we all reuse the same password for login accounts all over the Internet. At best, some of us create a few passwords through which we rotate.
So why is it that some companies still insist on sending me my password via email right after I create my online account? The reason [...]
This past week a national cable and high-speed Internet provider by the name of Charter Communications accidentally deleted all the contents of 14,000 active email accounts. A spokeswoman for the company explained that there is no way for them to retrieve anything that was erased. The spokeswoman offered this [...]
The privacy and portability of your online data may become more of an issue in 2008. News is out today of a Federal case which will investigate whether the use of a false identity could be considered Internet fraud under federal statutes. [...]
div>TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is to provide a concise, compiled overview of the most intriguing stories from the last few days. Today’s news roundup focuses on Google. Feel free to [...]
div>Last weekend a Gmail vulnerability was demonstrated at DEFCON, one of the oldest continuous running hacker conventions. Though it’s not specific to Gmail, a session hijacking demonstration by Robert Graham showed hackers can take over a users email account by simply sniffing network traffic and stealing web browser files called “cookies.” A [...]
Let’s face it; we all reuse the same password for login accounts all over the Internet. At best, some of us create a few passwords through which we rotate. So why is it that some companies still insist on sending me my password via email right after I create my online account? The reason [...]
