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Dropbox prompts certain users to change their passwords

26

Aug

2016

Dropbox is asking users who signed up before mid-2012 to change their passwords if they haven’t done so since then. The cloud storage service said it was asking users to change their passwords as a preventive measure, and not because there is any indication that their accounts were improperly accessed. Dropbox said it was taking […]

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Need to bypass Google’s two-factor authentication? Send a text message

07

Jun

2016

Over the weekend a screenshot circulating on Twitter caught our attention. Normally, this would be a one-off story for the weekly Rehashed round up, but this scam teaches a lesson that’s worth some focus. The lesson is that Social Engineering – when used effectively – will eventually defeat every security control you can throw at […]

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Change your LinkedIn password NOW

19

May

2016

If you cast your minds back to the summer of 2012 then you’ll vaguely remember something about LinkedIn being hacked. Data was stolen and there were plenty of red faces in the social networks office, I’m sure. Despite the huge scale of the hack, LinkedIn carried on and everything slowly got back to normal. That […]

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