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Pony Botnet Steals 2M Yahoo, Facebook, Google Passwords
2013-12-04 22:34:28| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
According to researchers, scammers have scooped up more than 2 million passwords for sites like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo, but it appears that the data was stolen via malware-infected machines rather than a hack of those companies' systems.
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Bitcointalk.org warns passwords in danger after DNS attack
2013-12-02 14:16:07| InfoWorld: Top News
A popular bitcoin discussion forum warned on Monday that some user passwords may have been intercepted after the site's DNS (Domain Name System) registrar was breached. An attacker found a flaw in Bitcointalk.org's domain name registrar, a company based in Japan called Anonymous Speech, wrote an administrator for the forum who goes by the nickname "Theymos." Anonymous Speech could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Google Wants To Make Your Passwords Obsolete
2013-11-30 20:29:09| Wireless - Topix.net
If there's one thing that decades of computer use have taught security experts, it's that most of us are really bad at creating good passwords.
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GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts
2013-11-20 16:48:15| InfoWorld: Top News
Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. "We sent an email to users with compromised accounts letting them know what to do," GitHub security engineer Shawn Davenport said in a blog post. "Their passwords have been reset and personal access tokens, OAuth authorizations, and SSH keys have all been revoked."
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Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach
2013-11-12 20:13:06| InfoWorld: Top News
Facebook locked some users out of their accounts after determining that their login credentials were exposed as a result of a security breach at Adobe. The company is asking users who used the same login credentials for Adobe's online services and Facebook to verify their identity and change their password.
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