Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process. The system, called Login Verification, gives users the option to have a verification code sent to their mobile phone ...
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Twitter will offer users two-factor authentication when they sign in as "a second check to make sure it's really you". Twitter is stepping up its security measures following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media ...
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Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other ...
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New social media privacy laws that have been enacted in several states around the country, or those in the works, present something of a mixed bag for businesses. While the laws generally limit companies from asking job seekers and ...
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Add-ons, Keeper Sharing and Keeper Extensions, develop a robust functionality Online consumer data security software, Keeper, has been bolstered with two major features to help better protect consumers' critical data, with Keeper Sharing ...
Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation. Hundreds of organizations across Australia are using out-of-date industrial control systems (ICS) to control the ...
Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
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INFORMATION technology start-ups have taken the lion's share of the government's innovation funding pool over the last three years. IT companies, mostly in start-up phase stage or in another early stage of operation, accounted for $77 ...
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This week was a week for email milestones.?Spam – that scourge of the Internet – turned 35 years old. And Microsoft pulled the plug on its hoary webmail service Hotmail. The first spam message sent on?what was to become the ...
A partnership that sought to make it easy for Americans and Canadians to buy the virtual currency bitcoin has dissolved into a US$75 million lawsuit. Bitcoin startup CoinLab alleges that the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox in Tokyo, ...
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A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today downplayed the significance of a recent incident of unauthorized access to a database containing potentially sensitive information on thousands of high hazard dams across the country. ...
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Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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The 14th International Expo for Textile Fabric & Accessories Hangzhou China will be held from 24-26 June, 2013 in the Hangzhou International Convention and Exhibition center. China International Apparel Fabrics and Accessories Fair have ...
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Even as several states have put in place, or are planning, new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services ...
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A malfunctioning log-in system affected millions of people's ability to access a variety of Google applications on Wednesday, including Gmail and Drive. The problem, which lasted for about three hours on Wednesday morning, occurred when ...
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