My password list has more 150 logins, and that number is too small to brag about.
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These days, I only link my phone up to my password-protected wireless network at home.
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So, PayPal has multiple levels of security that protect my password.
Checking my email on my phone I found two messages from Twitter - each telling me that my password had been reset "as a precautionary security measure".
From there, I can change my password and they recommend that I have 8-20 characters, with a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.
It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.
When someone who has enabled the feature is unable to login using the normal means, they can click "forgot my password" and request that keys be sent to their specified friends via Facebook message.
Two minutes later, an email arrived notifying me that my Google Account password had changed.
To try the service, today I registered myself, which took about 10 seconds and required refreshingly little personal info (just a name, email, and password of my choosing).
Obviously, I now need to remember every crappy Internet service I signed up for over the last decade with the same password as my PlayStation one and change them.
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My guess is they used brute force to get the password, and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.
At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash.
Fired up the password and checked on my cash.
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Clicking on the link handed my e-mail address and Facebook password to the scammer.
Luckily (?), my brother-in-law does not have a password enabled on his iPad.
In this case, though, not having a password meant that the iPad was on its way back to my brother-in-law within hours of its separation.
We recently had our annual pay increase exercise at my university and it did a number of things, including hand delivering pay worksheets and emailing password-protected Excel spreadsheets to ensure that the amount of the raises given was a well-kept secret.
"I did not want to do it, but because I really needed my job and he implied that this was a condition of recertification, I reluctantly gave him the password, " he told Maryland lawmakers, who are considering outlawing the practice.
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