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Does Southwest’s new ‘password’ commercial need to get away?

October 25, 2016/in Internet Security

If you watched any football yesterday, chances are you saw the latest in Southwest Airlines’ “Wanna get away?” commercial series, this one featuring a military general and his comical willingness to surrender his network access password.

While funny on its face, the commercial is not exactly a lesson in proper password management. Watch or read the transcript that follows:

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Why asking you to change your password makes it easier to hack the system – McClatchy Washington Bureau

October 15, 2016/in Computer Security

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Why asking you to change your password makes it easier to hack the system
McClatchy Washington Bureau
It's an actual phenomenon, studied by behavioral scientists and computer security experts. It happens when users get bombarded with security warnings and demands for compliance. As a result, the studies show, three-quarters of computer users know how …

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Opera warns 1.7 million Opera Sync users of breach, forces password reset

August 29, 2016/in Computer Security

About 350 million people use the Opera browser. Of those, 1.7 million received an email from Opera, warning that attackers breached Opera’s cloud Sync service server. Even if a person didn’t check their email, they would have known something was up since Opera forced a password reset for Sync users.

Opera announced the breach on Friday. The company said it detected and then “quickly blocked” an attack last week, but “some data, including some of our sync users’ passwords and account information, such as login names, may have been compromised.”

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