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Google’s new ‘My Account’ lets you tweak privacy and security settings

02

Jun

2015

#google knows a lot about you. I know, I know: DUH. When Google’s not tracking what sites users visit online so it can target-market them, its snoopy Street View cars are driving around and sniffing unsecured #wireless #networks and their passwords, usernames, and private #email. But here’s something else Google knows about us: even though 93% […]

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Account recovery via secret questions is a bad idea

22

May

2015

Secret questions offer far lower #security than user-chosen passwords, and should never be used as the only way to reclaim access to a lost account, #google researchers have confirmed. After having examined a large, real-world data set on personal knowledge questions, they found that users are having trouble remembering the correct answers. One reason for this […]

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St. Louis Federal Reserve forces password change after DNS attack

20

May

2015

A branch of the U.S.’s central bank is forcing a #password reset after a cyberattack briefly redirected visitors to parts of its website to bogus Web pages. The Federal Reserve of St. Louis found on April 24 that DNS (domain name system) settings had been changed to redirect people to fake Web pages. The bank […]

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