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What day-to-day activities can compromise a person's information security [closed]
Recently a car was stopped next to me at the traffic lights. The driver had his phone connected to the car's bluetooth and the conversation could be heard by me crystal clear in the next car - the ...
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How do online accounts get hacked?
How does your typical users run-of-the-mill Facebook/twitter/gmail/AIM/etc account get hacked? Is it simply a matter of a weak password? Are they typically the victim of phishing or other social ...
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How to catch a gmail hacker/money-scammer? (in conversation with one right now!)
My friend's GMail account was recently hacked and the perpetrator sent out one of those classic "help I was mugged, I need money" style e-mails. (Edit: I know it's legit; my friend called me to tell ...
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Are there password/passphrase guessers/crackers which can utilize facts supplied about the target?
I was just reading a discussion about cracking passwords that said the person running the tool might know things about the target like the birthday of his first girlfriend's dog but the tool won't.
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Is there any legal reason to save a cleartext password?
I called customer service of a well known company and discovered that the operator had the ability to view my website password in clear text on her screen.
I asked her about this and she defended the ...
