Kanye, please keep your “all zeroes! all the time!” password away from the media. And Nutella? No, “Nutella” is NOT a good password.
Tag Archives: passwords
Support wouldn’t change his password, so he mailed them a bomb
The Cryptopay customer asked customer services for a new password. They refused, given that it was against the company privacy policy.
Voting machine manual tells officials to reuse weak passwords
The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.
Passcodes are protected by Fifth Amendment, says court
The government isn’t really after the password, after all; it’s after any potential evidence it protects. In other words: fishing expedition.
What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes
Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.
Yikes: 1 in 5 employees share their email passwords with coworkers
19% of employees of small and medium-sized businesses share their passwords with coworkers or assistants, according to a recent survey.
Google Chrome will now generate unique passwords for you
Chrome will now generate a unique password for users as a part of the everyday credential creation process.
Could semantic icons replace passwords and PINs?
SemanticLock replaces passwords, PINs and patterns with a sequence of graphical icons which work semantically.
Sextortion scam knows your password, but don’t fall for it
The scam emails claim to have compromising video of you, and back it up by showing you one of your passwords.
Linux experts are crap at passwords!
Last week’s megastory was the Gentoo breach that saw an entire online Linux code repository hacked – now we know how it happened…