Start by turning on password locks for your mobile devices and computer.
Both attacks only applied to the millions of users too lazy to alter the default password used on their password when it was first installed.
Customers will be able to access and analyze DNA data on a password-protected computer cloud.
Patients who enroll get a personal health account to maintain and share test results via email on a password-protected site.
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When on a password-secure Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) point, messages sent to and from unprotected websites are safer, but not as safe as when sites enable security on their end, experts say.
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To make a purchase on a website, a MasterPass user would enter a password on the checkout page of a merchant who has installed the service as a payment option instead of typing in their card number, security code and other information that experts say slows down e-commerce transactions.
Let's see if anyone forgot to set a password on his or her copy.
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People should change their password on any other site where they use it, she added.
One of the accountants keeps his password on a Post-It note on his laptop.
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Especially if the folks who set the camera up neglect to put a password on it.
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Putting a password on your phone is good for keeping a paranoid significant other from snooping.
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It could be stored on a personal password-protected web site, with temporary access granted to any e-tailer a customer chooses.
Also, more than three of every 10 smartphone users have no password on their device according to a global survey by Web security firm McAfee.
Since many people use variations on the same password across various sites, this could prove to be an annoyance to the 1.3 million people with Gawker accounts.
Rather than placing the phone in inventory, as is appropriate when an item is seized incident to arrest, Officer Bocci bypassed the password on the phone and searched its contents.
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Gawker has written a pretty big check here, compromising the FTP accounts given to them by other companies, as well as any of their users who use the same password on multiple web sites.
However there were a number of things I could have done to prevent the hassle of changing every password on every application and having to cancel or change a number of things as a result.
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"That's a technique commonly used in a normal marketing email communications, but looks very out of place in an email about a security breach which tries to hammer home the point to 'Never click on reset-password requests in emails, " he said.
On top of that, 15% of people surveyed said they save password information on their phones to apps and websites they use and more than half (55%) who do have passwords said they've shared those passwords with others.
Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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Luckily (?), my brother-in-law does not have a password enabled on his iPad.
The agents were unable to find any questionable material, but much of the data on the computers was password protected.
As well as raising issues about password security on Twitter, the incident also raises questions about the status of Anonymous.
The biggest danger, Cluley says, is poor password security on iPad devices which unfortunately for Apple, is also out of its control.
The user must then retrieve all the codes, or keys, and enter them into fields on Facebook's password-recovery page to log back in, a Facebook spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
So, whether or not you knew about that tiny shake or jitter in your hand, you may soon make use of it to replace that old password scribbled on that aging yellow sticky note.
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Chaney admitted he hacked into the personal emails of his targets by clicking on the "forgot password" feature of their accounts and answering security questions by using publicly available information about celebrities that he found on the internet.
But password laxity imposes costs even on sites with good security, since people often use the same password for several different places.
To do all the damage all the hackers needed to do was to get their hands on a single username and password.
On the federal level, two bills have now been introduced on the topic: the Password Protection Act of 2012 and the Social Networking Online Protection Act.
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