In what was a mind-boggling series of events in real time, one Associated Press hack and a false tweet about the White House sent the stock market into a momentary free fall. Twitter hopes to stop intrusions like that in the future by introducing a two-factor authentication process, Wired has learned. When this offering will be available to users is unknown. The company has been working on this at… → Read More
According to Twitter, it was hacked and 250K accounts were affected, so they received emails from the company to change their password. This is not the first time this has happened, but this time it was a real hack, rather than a blend of real hacks and “false alarm” blast of emails like last time. Way to start off our weekends, Twitter. Who knows if you’ll even get the email… → Read More
Twitter has responded to us with a statement regarding the password reset situation.
For those of you just waking up or catching wind of this, a lot of folks have been reporting that their account password has been reset because it was compromised. → Read More
Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one. If you can’t log into your account that may be why. Lots of users are affected judging by the amount of people tweeting about password problems. → Read More
Adam Pash over at Lifehacker has a simple slide show demonstrating how to crack your Windows administration password with the Ophcrack Live CD. Once you download and burn the disc, it’s surprisingly easy to do — as long as your password is fewer than 15 characters. Supercalifragiwhatnow? How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD [Lifehacker] → Read More
<img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/passwords for helping out your friends when they've misplaced theirs, and not for logging into your neighbor's wireless and messing with their settings. The prerequisites for the latter are 1) an open wireless connection, and 2) a real hatred for your neighbors. Just make sure they don't know it was you that… → Read More
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