Entries Tagged ‘password’:
filed in Internet, Privacy on Sep.23, 2008
The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for several [...]
Tags: Bill O'Reilly, email, Hackers, password, security
filed in Privacy, Software on Sep.18, 2008
There is a cool tool that scans databases such as MYSQL in an attempt to find accounts using passwords like “password,” “12345,” “qwerty” and “abc123.”
The program runs through a list of account names and attempts to login using a number of password combination’s to gain access to a users account. This kind of hack can [...]
Tags: bots, Hackers, MYSQL, password, security
filed in Internet, Privacy on Aug.02, 2008
You may think your password will never be hacked, but how sure are you? Do you use a password such as your date of birth, phone number, street address or initials? You may be in for a surprise as hacking passwords has become easier to obtain.
It’s important to have a password that is at least [...]
Tags: encryption, Hacked, password, Privacy, security
filed in Consumer Tips, Internet on Jul.02, 2008
How many times have you seen a post with the title “I Was Hacked” in a forum or social network? I have seen it so many times, and I always come up with the same question, “Why would they hack your site?” I see no monetary value that a hacker could receive from many of [...]
Tags: Hacked, Hackers, ICANN, password, security