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  Zappos data breach response a good idea or just panic mode?

  In acknowledging a data breach in which information related to as many as 24 million customers was stolen, online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos has taken assertive steps, including compelling customers to change passwords, plus temporarily foregoing 800-number phone service in an effort to redeploy customer-service representatives to respond to customer email.

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 January, 2012 07:29

  Tags: cybercrime, cybersecurity, data breach, legal, passwords, security, Zappos

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  IBM predicts five big technologies of the future

  IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages the company has had some success in predicting the future of telemedicine and nanotechnology.

  By Michael Cooney | 21 December, 2011 08:31

  Tags: antispam, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, digital divide, Gartner, hardware systems, IBM, infrastructure management, management, networking, passwords, security, spam

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  Optus cuts IT help desk costs by 60 per cent

  Optus has slashed its IT help desk costs by 60 per cent after rolling out self-service security software.

  By Lisa Banks | 25 July, 2011 14:38

  Tags: call centres, CA Technologies, optus, passwords, help desk

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  LulzSec harvests Aussie emails, passwords

  Fresh from attacking the CIA's CIO.gov website with a denial of service (DOS) attack, hacker group LulzSec has struck again with a leaked list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, including some harvested from Australian organisations.

  By Hamish Barwick | 17 June, 2011 12:14

  Tags: email addresses, LulzSec, passwords, security, security breach

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  Aussies urged to slash digital footprint, change passwords: PayPal

  A survey commissioned by online payments company, PayPal Australia, has revealed that some Australians don't know the number of websites holding their personal information and many are using the same passwords across multiple accounts, much to the alarm of security experts.

  By Hamish Barwick | 30 May, 2011 15:22

  Tags: passwords, paypal, security

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  PM's office passwords pose security risk

  More than 10 per cent of passwords used in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's department can be easily broken in an hour by hackers using "brute force", a report from the Australian National Audit Office says.

  By AAP | 29 March, 2011 14:01

  Tags: Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), email, hackers, passwords, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, security, security breach

• Mozilla site exposed encrypted passwords

  A Mozilla database was exposed to the Internet, the Mozilla Foundation disclosed

  By Joab Jackson | 29 December, 2010 11:12

  Tags: data breach, mozilla, passwords, security

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  Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords

  E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 14 December, 2010 03:43

  Tags: cybercrime, Gawker Media, hacking, legal, passwords, security

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  Elcomsoft releases iPhone 4 password cracker

  Russian password-cracking company Elcomsoft has released new software that can in some instances figure out the password used to encrypt backed-up iPhone data.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 06 August, 2010 05:34

  Tags: Access control and authentication, Apple, Elcomsoft, encryption, iOS 4, mobile, Mobile operating systems, passwords, security, software, Telecommunication

• Researchers: Password crack could affect millions

  A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference.

  By Robert McMillan | 16 July, 2010 08:16

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, black hat, Computing services, internet, Internet-based applications and services, passwords, Root Labs, security, services

• Researchers: Poor password practices hurt security for all

  A large-scale study of password-protected Web sites revealed a lack of standards across the industry that harms end-user security, according to two researchers working at the University of Cambridge in England.

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 08 June, 2010 06:51

  Tags: passwords, security

• Police called after 9-year-old steals password

  A few weeks ago, officials at Fairfax County Public Schools thought they had a hacker on their hands.

  By Robert McMillan | 17 April, 2010 10:06

  Tags: passwords, security

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  Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

  Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

  By Robert McMillan | 15 April, 2010 05:46

  Tags: apache, atlassian, data theft, hack, passwords

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  Too many people re-use logins, study finds

  An analysis of real-world online behaviour has warned of the unsettling phenomenon that led to this week's high-profile Twitter login scare. Far too many people re-use the same logins for more than one site.

  By John E. Dunn | 05 February, 2010 01:29

  Tags: passwords, security, social networking, twitter

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  Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts

  Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been harvested via security-compromised torrent Web sites, the company said.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 04 February, 2010 05:48

  Tags: exploits and vulnerabilities, passwords, security, twitter