Features include name-and-password log-in support, file and directory caching for quick access, firewall and proxy-server support, and UNIX file attribute support.
Banking-targeted password-stealing programs still outnumber gaming-targeted Trojans, and many of the programs record all keystrokes to swipe any password the user types in.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) security expert Jesper Johansson says one of the prime directives of password picking--don't write it down--forces users to choose simple and insecure words, since that's all they can remember.
While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.
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Second, the industry also provides caregivers built-in, password-protected parental controls that limit which types of video games, based on the ESRB-assigned rating, can be played on all new game consoles.
So the USPS deployed v-GO password-management software from Passlogix.
The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a "one-time password" - doing away with the need for a separate device sometimes needed to log in to online banking.
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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In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.
According to research firm Gartner, in a typical enterprise, 30% of all help-desk calls are password-reset requests, and in some businesses, they account for as much as 60%.
AmigoBot accesses the Internet through a password-protected private link-up using a VPN.
In many cases, account hacking happens when the target has an easy-to-guess password, accesses the account via public Wi-Fi, or forgets to log out after using an account on a publicly shared computer.
Parents shouldn't be obliged to act as the sole filters for the torrent of material, as they are today, blocking channels and password-protecting against the ever-shifting programming.
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The Web-savvy user now has an average of 30 password-protected accounts.
Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
That's compared to 2007, when only about 11, 000 species of the game-password stealing Trojans were found, compared with 21, 000 bank-password stealing varieties.
The most obvious one to adopt appears to be the user authentication and OTP (one-time-password) that has been in existence for some time and has seen a fair degree of success in preventing fraud.
The Justice Department said Mr. Liang's position at the FDA gave him access to the agency's password-protected tracking system used to manage drug applications and drug-safety issues.
It could be stored on a personal password-protected web site, with temporary access granted to any e-tailer a customer chooses.
But if Broadwell had, anyone with a password-cracking tool might have been able to snoop on her e-mails and discover her dalliance with a four-star general.
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.
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.
At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
At Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
You are more likely to run into trouble if the data is password-protected or encrypted.
Customers will be able to access and analyze DNA data on a password-protected computer cloud.
These days, I only link my phone up to my password-protected wireless network at home.
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Caregivers log in to a secure, password-protected Web site, similar to logging in to Web mail.
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Avoid using actual words, because password-cracking software can run through the entire dictionary in less than a minute.
During a preliminary search of these devices, the agents found that many of the computer files were password-protected.
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