What do users get in their mail box when they register, reset password, subscribe or place an order?
At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash.
David Kernell guessed the answers to Ms Palin's security questions and reset her password, prosecutors said.
When this is done, PayPal send an email containing a link to reset the password.
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Affected users will not be able to log in and will receive an e-mail instructing them to reset their password.
Can you, for instance, log in from a Web browser, reset your password, and then restore your content to a new device?
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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.
Evernote's massive password reset last week was the most recent demonstration of leaky security around consumer locks and keys.
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We could reset any reporters password, add admin users, modify pages, etc.
"Our help desk was getting overwhelmed with password reset requests, " says Grimes.
After entering the target email address in the password reset form you can then select to answer security questions to validate your identity.
Since it outsources its help desk, each and every call to the service provider incurred a charge, and before long password-reset costs ballooned to millions of dollars.
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%.
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.
Back to Evernote and other password-reset alarms.
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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".
My guess is they used brute force to get the password, and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.
Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens, which allow you to stay logged into the service without reentering a password, for all of these accounts.
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