Securing your WiFi router with a password is an easy step to take, and it is often overlooked.
Make sure you protect access to your device with a password or PIN to keep intruders out if the device is lost or stolen.
Adding a passcode to a smartphone is recommended for everyone, regardless of relationship status, but only 40% of Americans currently protect their phones with a password.
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.
As they leave the museum, they will be issued with a password, so that they can subsequently call up this information over the Internet, from home or school.
Although nervous customers will probably be able to protect their e-purse with a password or with fingerprint identification technology, V-Sync believes many will prefer to use the gadget without lengthy identification rituals.
But in the meantime, if you're in California and are concerned about privacy and your constitutional rights, it's a good idea to protect your cell phone and other electronic devices with a password or encryption.
The final layers of security include a pair of authentication certificates residing on the handsets, as well as requiring users to log-in with a password before they can use the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server.
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Bank records, for example, are supposed to be accessible to customers only with a personal password.
Simply choose the amount of capacity you want to encrypt, and access it with a custom password.
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Worse, Linksys' devices come with a default password, "HomePlug, " rather than forcing you to install one of your own.
Over the course of the next eight hours Thompson took between 10 and 12 more phone calls, each beginning with a different password.
While preparing your tax return, protect it with a strong password.
Yesterday it emerged that Last Pass, a service that syncs with browsers to let you control a variety of passwords with one master password, had asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.
What is more, if there was an issue, you could simply create an exception with a username and password.
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The second piece of advice has to do with password composition, the idea that a good password is longer, contains letters and numbers, and has special characters.
On the other hand, affected users should be sure to change the password of any other online accounts that share a password with their Playstation Network account.
As the Internet has become part of our lives, the typical web user today has accumulated dozens of accounts at different websites, each with a distinct username and password to remember.
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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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In the subject field of the email, you will need to add a password alongside with the name of your school, for child protection reasons.
He has issued a password along with instructions to a select group that provides access to a new and much larger communications file, one which many of those researchers and their sponsoring organizations have worked very hard to suppress from legal FOIA requests.
At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
Described publicly only once at a technical conference four years ago, the software is intended to enable users and employees to sign in with their password just once to operate a range of services.
With a personalized examination of conscience for each user, password protected profiles, and a step-by-step guide to the sacrament, this app invites Catholics to prayerfully prepare for and participate in the Rite of Penance.
So if he is willing to bet millions on OneID, a start-up that promises to replace your user name and password for all your accounts with a single digital identity, OneID may be on to something big.
Having a plethora of logins with differing password strengths, the frequent re-use of passwords, etc. clearly leads to security and risk issues.
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This, combined with a number of high-profile password breaches at some websites has shown the need to move forward to the next level in authentication.
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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.
It could be stored on a personal password-protected web site, with temporary access granted to any e-tailer a customer chooses.
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