ImagineX Group, Asia's leading retail, brand management and distribution company, and Authentic Brands Group, LLC ('ABG'), the new owner of Juicy Couture, announced a long-term franchise partnership which will drive market expansion and ...
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An Israel-based startup specializing in using sounds instead of passwords for logging in said Monday it has been bought by Google. SlickLogin did not disclose financial terms of the deal, and Google did not respond to an AFP request for ...
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Voxx International wants iris recognition technology to render passwords obsolete, offering a "one in two trillion" level of online security. The US-based consumer electronics company once known as Audiovox on Monday unveiled myris, a ...
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A lawsuit could put a crimp in Microsoft's reported plans to implement two-factor authentication for users of its consumer cloud services. Two-factor authentication – which supplements a user's password with a PIN or code generated ...
Google has started letting people plan what is to be done with their digital photos, documents and other virtual belongings after they die or become incapacitated. An “Inactive Account Manager” can be used to direct Google to ...
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Finland-based F-Secure said in a report that the free Google operating system, which has been gaining smartphone market share globally, has become the dominant platform targetted by hackers. "Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new ...
Twitter's servers have been breached by "extremely sophisticated" hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday. Twitter said unusual access patterns led it to identify the ...
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Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form of a piece of jewelry such as a ring. In a research paper, two of its engineers write ...
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Computerworld - Burlington, Wash. officials have notified hundreds of employees and residents that their bank account information was compromised last week when hackers broke into city systems and stole more than $400,000 from a city ...
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Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...
More than two-thirds of smartphone owners have not yet adopted mobile banking apps because of security concerns, a survey has revealed. By contrast, only 14% of those surveyed by security firm Metaforic said that security concerns were ...
Millions of subscribers to Virgin Mobile's services in the United States are wide open to account hijacking because of the insecure manner in which the company authenticates users to their online accounts, an independent software developer ...
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The online accounts of Virgin Mobile USA subscribers are vulnerable to brute force attacks because the company forces customers to use weak passwords on its website, according to a software developer. "Virgin Mobile forces you to use your ...
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Hackers have been able to exploit security flaws in a new government jobs website to steal personal information about job applicants. The Universal Jobmatch website has been described as a"scammer's paradise"in a Channel 4 News ...
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An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
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