I find it difficult to remember passwords for websites. Even a simple password I forget. The pass words my son , son-in-law make me swoon, so complicated. So I save them in a folder. Simple, you would think. I create folders in such a fashion with such exotic names I find it difficult to locate … Continue reading Your Eye Saves Passwords Myris Scan
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Close on the heels of LinkedIn and Yahoo, now it is the turn of Dropbox to be hacked. Popular cloud storage service provider, Dropbox has acknowledged that the security of some of its users' accounts was compromised. The users were getting spam emails from hackers who managed to get their hands on the account details of … Continue reading Dropbox Hacked, Change Password
If you are using your user name as your password, 43 percent of all password-guessing attempts simply re-entered the user name. The top 10 most common passwords: 1. Your user name 2. Your user name followed by 123 3. 123456 4. password 5. 1234 6. 12345 7. passwd 8. 123 9. test 10. 1 http://daol.aol.com/articles/10-passwords-you-should-never-use … Continue reading Avoid These Passwords.
A Gmail confirmation scam email is going around, asking you to verify your Gmail account. “Dear Account User,” the request starts out - and goes on to say that you need to confirm your Gmail account, or it will be closed down. Of course, the language is wrong, and it wasn’t even necessarily sent to your Gmail account, but … Continue reading Scam Gmail Verification Email is Identity Theft Effort in Disguise.
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