Facebook users log in to the social networking site with their username and password. Normally you would expect that the password is unique, and that no one else could access the account by entering a different password in the login prompt on the website. If you have thought that then you have been wrong, and [...]

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Are you a Twitter user who is following all users that are following you? Or do you limit your friends list on Twitter to real life friends, business contacts and family? The first group of users is taking more risks than the second, but none are really 100% safe from malicious tweets and traps. A [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security

In May of 2009 a Sanford, Maine based company, Patco Construction Co, filed suit against Ocean Bank, a division of Bridgeport, Conn. Based People’s United Bank. Patco used online banking to make weekly payroll payments and claimed that cyber thieves had used a Trojan (ZeuS) to steal Patco’s online credential and then heisted $588,000 over [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

It is common knowledge that a website, such as PayPal or eBay, will never ask for your password. They do not need it, but rarely do we hear about why that is the case. There are actually a few possibilities. Please note, if you ever get an e-mail requesting your username and password, it is [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

Location based services can be helpful to the user, no question about that. They are most often implemented and used in mobile devices who are able to return the location of the owner to the network where these information can get utilized in several ways from locating the nearest post office, restaurant or atm to [...]

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RockYou, a service that offers applications like slideshows, games, layouts and more for social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Orkut that of the network’s users seem to love so much was recently hacked and the service’s entire database of 30+ million data sets exposed. This alone would have been problematic but the situation grew [...]

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Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new password in the email inbox. This does however make email hacking a profitable business as email accounts are usually connected to online stores [...]

Categories: Security, The Web