Security

Popular Password Manager, LastPass, Says It May Have Been Hacked, Scaring Its 1 Million Users And Eroding Confidence In The Cloud

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LastPass, one of the best known, most popular password management apps to emerge in recent years yesterday announced that it may have been hacked. Coming on the heels of the Sony PlayStation Network breach, the news casts a cloud over the cloud.

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A Lesson From Those Damn Yankees: Team's Customer Service Rep Accidentally Emails Season Ticket Holders' Contact Info

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Contact information for 18,000 New Yank Yankees season ticket holders was emailed accidentally earlier this week to several hundred people.

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Apple Says It Never Meant To Track iPhone Users' Location, But It Is Changing The Way It Stores That Controversial Data

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Apple says it is innocent. It was not trying track the location of its iPhone users. But it will start encrypting that data and store less of of it.

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Personal Data, And Maybe Credit Card Numbers, Of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Users Is Hacked

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Sony is in the midst of perhaps the worst Internet security disaster ever, after disclosing that its PlayStation gaming platform was hacked.

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12 Security Tips For Locking Down Your Computer, Phone And Web Surfing

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While this list may contain a few tips that you have not heard before--like using virtual credit card numbers--some of these ideas will serve reminders of best practices you need to adopt.

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