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Twitter password recovery bug exposes 10,000 users’ personal information

19

Feb

2016

Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website’s password recovery feature. The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last week, but the company alerted affected users on Wednesday. “Any user that we find to […]

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How to make your email address as hard to guess as your password

03

Sep

2014

The attack vectors were seeing most often involve figuring out some public piece of data about you and then parlaying that into some social engineering (or clever password recovery) to get to your data. Unfortunately, the same trick doesnt work if you use Outlook or Yahoo, but you can go through a more convoluted process […]

Category CA Technologies Tech Written by The Verge 0 Comments

Hacking Tools, Survey Scam Using SOPA Target Facebook Users

06

Jun

2012

While monitoring our Smart Protection NetworkT data, we noticed a suspicious file from the website http://{BLOCKED}bookhacking.com/FacebookHackerPro_Install.exe. From the looks of the domain name, it suggests that it hosts a hacking tool for the social networking site Facebook. When I checked, the file is supposedly capable of obtaining Facebook passwords. Based on our analysis of the […]

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