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.
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.
Rarely are leaks intentional: Somebody at work might post a file on a server to download at home, a wrongly configured server might make too much of a hard drive searchable or a Web site's password-protection might be flimsy enough to be accessible to search engines.
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.
Friends can connect to your gear without having to ask you for your Wi-Fi network's password.
Other digital files would be uploaded to a password-protected website, where Operation Photo Rescue's roughly 3, 000 volunteers can choose images they'd like to work on.
The second study, commissioned by Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and the National Cyber Security Alliance, also shows that more than 60% of employees sometimes use mobile devices without encrypted or password-protected data to connect to their work's network, and more than a third sometimes work by piggybacking on strangers' wireless Internet connections.
While it doesn't appear that member accounts were accessed, the attack displayed LinkedIn's tardiness in implementing the most advanced password-encryption systems.
Hitachi's version "scrambles data using a password-generated key" as the data is written, and then descrambled with the key as it is retrieved using the highly-touted Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
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As far as we know, nobody's ever been executed for typing the wrong password to their e-mail account.
Turns out you can reset any Apple ID password with nothing more than a person's email address and date of birth -- two pieces of information that are pretty easy to come across.
Apple hasn't been as direct about what's going on, but Wired believes there's been a 24-hour hold on phone-based Apple ID password resets while the company marshals its resources and decides how much extra strictness is required.
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Furthermore, someone can gain access to an e-mail or social network account using sniffing methods, without needing that person's password.
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Feature-wise, preferences and other desktop settings imported easily with Firefox Sync's shared password system, and the unfortunately named "Awesome Screen" is the new home page shown above, from which it's fairly simple to launch your preferred sites.
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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.
It's a simple, automated process in which you just need to enter your Wi-Fi password and assign a name to your speakers.
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