"User passwords" refers to the secret codes or phrases that individuals create to access their personal accounts or devices. It is a security measure to ensure that only authorized users can gain entry and protect their information from being accessed by others without permission.
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After the service was hacked last year, six million
user passwords popped up on a Russian message board, revealing that the company used only bare basic security protocols.
«I don't know what happens when the government goes to smaller providers and
demands user passwords,» the person said.
Once a password is compromised, then all other sites with that
same user password are also vulnerable.
That means apps could detect and read essential parts of an operating system, and expose personal information
like user passwords.
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crack user passwords.
On Thursday, Twitter revealed that a bug caused the platform to store
user passwords in unmasked form.
Basic measures including access control device installation and operation, storage
of user passwords, and protection of users were integrated poorly.»
The breach highlights an error that PlentyOfFish and many other websites make:
storing user passwords in plain text.
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Twitter Inc. said late Thursday that it had located a bug that stored its more than 330 million
user passwords unmasked in an internal log, but ha...
Administrators should
require user passwords to be comprised of numbers, lower - case and upper - case letters.
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Last month, some 6.5 million encrypted
LinkedIn user passwords — or about 4 % of the service's 150 million users — showed up on a Russian hacker forum.
But these keys are sent to a central server along
with user passwords in plain, unencrypted text, meaning that anyone who can break into the server can decrypt the message traffic, he said.
Password auditing programs such as L0phtCrack, which costs $ 295 and up, apply various hacking techniques to
check user password strength.
It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal
Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.
You will have to change the account from blackberry data to android data which you will need the
authorized users password or last four of their SS # to do.
Although user passwords are encrypted in the database, it is unknown whether the hacker has been successful in decrypting passwords.
In an ideal implementation, the bcrypt algorithm is so slow and computationally demanding it would take centuries to
decrypt user passwords — rendering them all but useless.
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Amazon is force - resetting
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The term «hashed passwords» means that the hackers obtained scrambled versions
of user passwords, meaning they could not be immediately deciphered.
Though LastPass claims that the vault
storing user passwords was not accessed, the company is warning users to change their master passwords.
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Require user passwords to be a minimum length of 12 characters and contain both upper and lower - case characters, as well as numbers and symbols.
Twitter said it found a bug in how it stored
user passwords that could have left them visible to people in its internal computer system.
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Company said bug may have made some passwords visible to people using its internal computer system, but says no sign of a breach
Twitter Inc. on Thursday said it found a bug in how it stored user passwords that could have left them visible to people in its internal computer system.
But during his tenure, Ms. Mayer also rejected the most basic security measure of all: an automatic reset of
all user passwords, a step security experts consider standard after a breach.
Basically, POF stored all of
the user passwords in a single mostly unprotected file, which provided hackers with an easy admission to private data.
Due to a security issue we will be resetting
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User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history.
Keep my personal information (including home / mobile phone number, mailing address, and
user password) and that of others private
Much of that benefit can be realized by designing devices that encrypt their storage (to
a user password) by default (though we know about the weaknesses of passwords, of course).
Entire school systems are being set up as stand - alone libraries, so that students can check out ebook titles and download them to their own devices via the school system's website and
their user passwords.
And another problem this made me aware of is the fact that B&N forces you to register the NC when you first start it up; there's no way to get past the set - up process without giving B&N an email address and
a user password to set up an account with them.
Last year, LinkedIn said a 2012 security breach compromised more than 100 million
user passwords.
These cached requests did not include full credit card numbers,
user passwords, or enough data to allow logging in as or completing a transaction as another user.