You can’t get into your account after a few failed password attempts. How come hackers seem to get in by trial and error? Most online systems do not have access to their users’ passwords, much less do they store them. Instead, when you create a password, an algorithm creates a string of characters and numbers …
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Were you caught in the Uber Hack?
If you had an Uber account in October 2016, then you are probably among the 2.7 million users in the UK to have had personal information stolen at that time I’m basing that “probably” on the fact that the Independent says that there are CURRENTLY 3 million Uber users in the UK. From what I …
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Have you been pwned?
Has your email address (and, possibly, password) been caught up in a data breach? If, like me, you have never heard of the word “pwned”, then I am pleased to elucidate by quoting Wikipaedia’s definition: Pwn is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb own, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain …
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