Google accelerates push to replace passwords by joining FIDO Alliance – The VergeGoogle joins board of directors of group aiming to get rid of passwords with identity authentication. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
Since the government has decided that it's too much trouble for us to have to enter our various user names and passwords when logging into websites, they came up with the idea of NSTIC, wherein Identity Providers will "vouch" for us.
The settlement ends a case against Google that dates back to 2010, when it was revealed that the company's Street View camera units had been illegally snooping in on local Wi-Fi networks while the vehicles were taking pictures for the service...
No more passwords is the main selling point of the NSTIC program to the User (Me), so it takes a lot of reading and dissecting of documents to understand what is not being stated and what words like “privacy” and “anonymity” mean in the identity...
No Facebook passwords were leaked with the user emails. Facebook has contacted Search Engine Watch to offer a new statement, as part of their ongoing investigation: Facebook is vigilant about protecting our users from those who would try to expose...
Exact steps to rescue a hacked website will depend on the CMS, but it will typically involve loading a clean backup and changing all ftp, user, and database passwords. Use complex passwords. In the blink of an eye, your dreams of expansion have...
Here is just a small list of issues that being able to open a browser might create, especially if you store your passwords in the browser fields. Blackhat and Defcon are what are professionally known as InfoSec (Information Security) conferences...
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Yahoo has confirmed reports that some 400,000 of its user passwords were stolen in security breach. While the information covers hundreds of thousands of users, the company contends that only a small number of the lifted passwords will actually...
Chrome for iOS will allow users to sync tabs, passwords, and settings across hardware platforms. Day two of the Googles I/O conference in San Francisco saw the introduction of Google Chrome and Drive apps for iOS devices.
Premium LinkedIn member Katie Szpryka claims the website didn't do enough to "safeguard its users' digitally stored and personally identifiable information, including e-mail addresses, passwords, and login credentials".
Hackers Steal More Than 6.5 Million Passwords Around 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were recently posted to a Russian hacker site, according to Norwegian website Dagens. Many of those hacked passwords have now been decrypted.
Within hours of its release, security researcher Nik Cubrilovic warned that the Chrome extension of Axis contained a major vulnerability, which could allow attackers to capture a users web traffic, including passwords and session cookies.
In its ruling, the FCC accused Google of “deliberately” impeding and delaying the 17-month investigation into Google’s collection of payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names, passwords, names, telephone numbers, addresses, and...
The investigation conducted was inadequate and did not address the applicability of federal wiretap law to Google's interception of emails, usernames, passwords, browsing histories, and other personal information," EPIC executive director Marc...
Forgotten passwords are a huge barrier to on-going engagement, so leverage OpenID and social sign-on tools to simplify the comment interaction process. Whether you're a veteran or a rookie online marketer, it's imperative to audit your website and...
Now we want to make Google, Google+, bowling, and you all better by including you, your relationships, your interests, your identity, your pet names, your passwords, your secret questions, our ads, your searches, your check-ins, your status...
While social networks have long been a resource used by companies to screen employees and new hires, the demand that users turn over their passwords has drawn attention from government officials and has been condemned by Facebook as "distressing.
Google, which collected payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names and passwords, telephone numbers) from unsecured WiFi networks – triggering numerous government investigations and some fines – is trying to get a class-action...
The passwords to her site may have allowed easy access (specifically if not changed from default passwords, or common, easily guessed passwords). Most people are aware of Rick Santorum’s issues with Google, but he’s not the only politician having...
