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Evernote is now officially a member of the recently hacked. The company develops software for notetaking and archiving. Its customers received password reset notifications over the weekend. Almost 50 million e-mail addresses and usernames have also been exposed by the hack. Evernote customer’s should therefore be wary of targeted phishing attacks. How was Evernote hacked? […]

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It appears that some hackers got their hands on the database of passwords from LinkedIn. LinkedIn representatives have stated that they’re currently analyzing the reports. The good news is that the data dump in size of 271 MB that has been made available on a Russian forum only contains the SHA1 hashes of the passwords […]

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Ever wonder where the term “Pwned” came from? Rumour has it that is started with the game World of Warcraft (WoW), where a map designer, intending to write “the player has been owned”, mistyped it as “the player has been pwned”. In any case, it is widely used today to mean you have been screwed […]

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