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Facebook has issued a post today that warns employers not to ask applicants or employees for passwords.
This practice, which has come increasingly under fire in recent months, violates Facebook's terms of service.
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Passwords today are the digital counterpart of one's physical keys, and over the past several years it has been highlighted by many security experts that a strong password helps provide a better layer of protection.
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A security firm has outlined in a recent report that organizations commonly use the password 'Password1' in business systems.
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Is your password "password?" Well, SplashData, an Internet security firm, has published its Worst Passwords of the Year. According to the list, general terms such as "password," your name or a series of numbers are commonly used.
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Citing hacker activity, Gawker Media froze the publication of new content and alerted readers to reset passwords, admitting that user data had been "compromised."
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A major password breach in December 2009 from RockYou.com resulted in 32 million passwords being posted on the Internet. Analysis of those passwords reveals that the use of insecure, weak passwords has changed very little over the past 20 years
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Eons ago, (for it surely feels that way now) when they first came on the scene, they were mere gateways to your electronic mailbox. Depending on how frequently you checked your e-mails, you didn’t have to cross paths with them.
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Some people use computer passwords so common, hackers don’t have to use tough tools to guess them. Many use passwords that are very easy to guess. A website has revealed the worst offenders.
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A new survey has found a majority of users in the U.S. and U.K. use the same password to log in to multiple websites. Rather than writing down new passwords, users select one they already use so they don't forget it.
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96,000 students are ordered to change passwords after attacks.
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Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords from job applicants
Senators want feds to look into employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews
If you’re worried about an employer or potential employer asking for your Facebook or Twitter password, you might just want to move to Maryland. The state’s General Assembly has become the first to pass a bill to keep social media passwords safe from employers. Just...
 The Nova Scotia government says it will consider an opposition bill to make it illegal for a boss to ask employees or job seekers for their passwords to Facebook and other social media sites.
Some bosses are asking workers for their Facebook password.
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Undoubtedly, the modern IT world can barely be imagined without cloud storages of versatile kinds, even though many of...
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Last year a computer security consultant's laptop was seized when traveling back from a trip to Mexico. Reportedly the...
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Banks might not need as much convincing that challenge questions based on shared secrets aren’t safe since the...
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UPDATE: It appears Google search results for this blog are vanishing, too. There were numerous results earlier, but...
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Intro This research paper presents a change in access to web accounts for social networks and possibly emails; it...
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