ConsumerMan: Death in the digital age

Thirty years ago, when my father passed away, my brother and I knew just where to look for all of his financial papers. Some were in his top desk drawer. The rest were in the family safe deposit box.

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Costa Rica ousts top 2 intel officials

Costa Rica has replaced two top intelligence officials because a government password apparently was used to loot private bank accounts.

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Most computer users repeat passwords, at their peril

Using the same password for multiple Web pages is the Internet-era equivalent of having the same key for your home, car and bank safe-deposit box.

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Regis to Host 'Million Dollar Password'

A new version of the classic game show "Password" is coming to CBS with Regis Philbin as host and a big-money prize. The network said Thursday that it has ordered six episodes of "Million Dollar Password" and plans to show the program early next year.

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Help Truthlove Get Back On Newsvine

Once again, the wicked fairies of the electronic world have cut TRUTHLOVER off from the vine. He cannot get on. He cannot accept members to the several groups he has started. If anyone can facilitate letting him reset his password, please help.

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Users of that old web mail service Hotmail have a new reason to regret their devotion: Over the weekend, thousands of user names and passwords from the service were posted on a data-sharing service called Pastebin, with potentially hundreds of thousands of additional users at ris …

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There, I have said. Passwords are indeed stupid. Why, you may ask? One cannot have a password, such as 'fluffy', and expect his account(s) to be secure due to dictionary attacks (the attempt to use every word, brute-force, in the English dictionary until access is granted).

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Elance just suffered its second network security issue, sending thousands of emails containing private information to third parties. Read more: #ixzz0QBUZshYw

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A foolproof technique to secure your computer, e-mail, and bank account.

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Information Security is becoming more than a profession, it slowly has evolved into a requirement of every individual. We see commercials on identity theft and forget that our identity is now virtual as well.

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With all the chatter about the current security issues surrounding Twitter, its workforce and the cloud-based Google apps they use, a new security issue has popped up that makes it trivially easy for anyone to access the Twitter servers directly.

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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I really love this company. the products work. nuff said!

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Passwords you should never use, including 12345 and admin. A must read for IT managers.

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When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father's gaming friends know that he hadn't just decided to desert them.

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As Facebook works to make itself more relevant and timely for its growing member base with a profile page makeover, attackers seem to be working overtime to steal the identities of the friends, fans and brands that connect though the social-networking site.

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It turns out that one of the biggest issues they had was browser compatibility. Yestrumskas told me that the two had working code running on Safari, but that, as he tested it and made a few tweaks, for an unexplained reason the attack just stopped working.

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Excerpt: It might be hard to believe, but there are still plenty of people using "password" as a password for their e-mails, bank accounts and more.

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Twitter says that the bug in their password retrieval system might have cause celebrities Twitter account to be compromised.

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Please Help Truthlover (truthlover.newsvine)--please encourage the vine staff to send a password!

This is a sad true tale about a vine member, truthlover. Just before truthlover received another branch and generous comments in an email from newsvine staff, truthlover asked several times a day for a new password since logging on had become impossible.

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In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as  …

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Acting with record speed, Microsoft has issued a patch for the just-announced security flaw that impacts all recent versions of Internet Explorer, from version 5 to the latest betas of IE 8.

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---Link to video: -- ORLANDO, Fla. -- Local 6 News continues its investigation into the Casey Anthony case as reporter Tony Pipitone deciphers the words and figures she used to communicate with her family from jail.

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Expert: This is a nifty little device: a credit card with an onboard one-time password generator. The idea is that the user enters his PIN every time he makes an online purchase, and enters the one-time code on the screen into the webform.

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"Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account, including a first-hand account suggesting it was vulnerable because a hacker was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password."

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Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account hacked, password posted to 4chan. Excellent summary of the events; screencaps on Wikileaks, discussion on Reddit

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A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not".

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A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not".

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