The recently leaked accounting data of thousands of Hotmail users — Gmail has also been affected — obtained through what appears to be a badly executed phishing campaign, once again puts the spotlight on the how bad password management practices remain an inseparable part of the user-friendly ecosystem. According to a statistical analysis of [...]
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The firewall you choose can have a major impact on your organization’s security and productivity. Here are 10 factors you don’t want to overlook. Firewalls play a critical role in protecting an organization’s network from a never-ending list of Internet-borne threats. Firewall selection also often determines how easily remote locations connect to centralized systems [...] More than 10,000 compromised Hotmail accounts were posted online this morning by attackers to demonstrate their success in capturing the sensitive information. The credentials displayed, including the username and password combination necessary to access the account, included accounts starting with letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ in alphabetical order. Read entire article A quick heads-up to all users of Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail email service: a list of at least 10,000 user names (and the corresponding passwords) of the second-largest email service after Yahoo has been leaked online. The list first appeared on the Pastebin website, which is normally used by programmers to share source code. Microsoft [...] |
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