Washington: You may be spared from typing pesky passwords in the future! Instead of typing your password, you may only have to think about it, thanks to a new wireless headset device developed by researchers.
Remembering passwords for all your sites can get annoying. There are only so many punctuation, number substitutes and uppercase variations you can recall, and writing them down for all to find is hardly an option.
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04:11 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Ways in which you can keep your password strong to ward off that initial intrusion. ...
06:49 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Search giant Google is set to kill off passwords and is experimenting with USB keys, mobile phones and even jewellery that can act as a physical 'key' to give users access to their account. ...
01:40 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The secret to finding more secure passwords could be straightforward - just don't use good grammar or spelling. ...
04:48 PM, Jan 18, 2013
mployers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student bullies thanks to new laws taking effect in 2013. ...
10:51 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Mumbai: With the BlackBerry 10 launch around the corner, Research in Motion has kept security as one of the paramount features of its upcoming OS. According to a report by Rapid Berry, a list of 106 passwords that the company will not let you use on this platform has been revealed. According to the Rapid Berry post, a list of 106 banned passwords has been stored in the upcoming BlackBerry...
07:03 AM, Dec 09, 2012
New York: Taking cue from iris scans used in UID in India, researchers are developing a new biometric system that can identify people by the way they flicker their eyes while looking at a computer screen. Oleg Komogortsev, a computer scientist at Texas State University-San Marco, is making use of the fact that no two people look at the world in the same way. When looking at a picture, different...
03:57 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New York: Scientists are advancing biometrics security systems a step further by developing 'biosoles' that can recognise you based upon your unique walk. Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University's Biometrics Research and Identity Automation Lab are developing new ways to enable security based on body's movements, which, unlike retinal scans and fingerprints, can't be taken from an individual, the New York Daily News reported. The new discipline called "pedo-biometrics" uses...
06:01 AM, Sep 27, 2012
London: Forgot your password again? No problem, just wave your hand! Scientists are developing a new technology which can verify a person's identity with a wave of the hand. A biometric sensor in a laptop or tablet computer scans the unique pattern of veins in a person's palm to verify their identity, the Telegraph reported. The technology, developed by Intel, could do away with the multiple passwords most people use...
02:06 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Yahoo confirmed that the data comprising 4,00,000+ email and passwords that was leaked online in plain text had been sourced from their servers. In an official post on its ycorpblog, Yahoo now asserts that they have taken "swift action" and fixed the vulnerability. In the post, Yahoo also informs that they have put in place additional security measures for users who were affected by the data breach. They...
11:39 AM, Jul 15, 2012
London: US semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July. It's the latest in a stream of data thefts which has hit major Internet companies over the past few weeks. Search provider Yahoo, networking sites LinkedIn and FormSpring, and dating site eHarmony have all recently reported breaches which collectively compromised the online credentials...
10:44 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: Following the massive password leak at LinkedIn, believed to have affected over 6 million users, security experts have recommended that LinkedIn users change their passwords immediately. If you think that by simply changing your LinkedIn password you are safe? Think again. You may need to change many of your online passwords. The reason is that many users tend to use the same passwords across multiple Web services -...
02:39 PM, Jun 07, 2012
London: Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to the largest ever sample analysis carried out by a Gathes Cambridge scholar at the university. The research carried out by Joseph Bonneau will be presented at a security conference held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in May. Bonneau's research has featured in The Economist, a university...
02:15 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Seattle: Two US senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they are calling on the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch investigations. The senators are sending...
07:25 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New York: Nathan Acosta is feeling a little overwhelmed. The 24-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, who works for a financial services firm, is trying his best to keep up with all the passwords and security questions he has to juggle, just to log onto his personal accounts. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle. It's a battle millions of consumers can identify with. For a while it was just...
01:14 PM, Mar 09, 2012
London: Find it difficult to remember your password? Here's some good news - researchers claim to have developed picture password for your online account, which will also help protect against hacking. An international team says that it's actually a new kind of login which relies on the fallibility of human memory to prevent phishing attempts at stealing one's account details, the 'New Scientist' reported. The researchers at Stony Brook University...
09:19 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Frankfurt: Never store unencrypted passwords on a computer's browser. Doing so makes it too easy for hackers to access the data with tools like Trojans and then access private accounts, warns German computer magazine c't. The magazine recommends that people who insist on storing passwords on a browser at least use some kind of master password, which means that all stored access data is safely encrypted. However, that option is...
10:48 AM, Jan 16, 2011
San Francisco: The fallout from a hacking attack on Gawker Media Inc. a week ago underscores a basic security risk of living more of our lives online: Using the same username and password for multiple sites is convenient, but costly. After the attack on the publisher of such blogs as Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel exposed account information on as many as 1.4 million people, several unrelated companies had to freeze...
11:12 AM, Dec 20, 2010
Hotmail users possibly tricked into entering information into a bogus site. ...
10:39 AM, Oct 06, 2009
Wouldn't you like to know whether your password's strong or weak? ...
09:00 PM, Oct 25, 2007
