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Feeling vulnerable today? You will after reading this blog post recently shared during a radio interview on The Union Edge: Labor’s Talk Radio show. LinkedIn Breach Announced LinkedIn recently announced that they had been made aware of a data hack that happened back in 2012. Stolen information included email addresses, passwords, and member ID numbers. […]

Ready to change your passwords again? If you didn’t bother changing your password when you heard about “Heartbleed” leaking out passwords, you might want to consider changing your online passwords today. In the largest known collection of stolen internet credentials, a Russian tech gang has reportedly acquired an estimated 1.2 billion username and password combinations, […]

Duplicating Usernames and Passwords is Risky Database vulnerability The truth is many online databases do not encrypt your username and password at all. So one dishonest employee can have thousands of passwords in one quick database export. If one online shop gets compromised, then all of the places you use that username and password are […]

It has come to our attention that 6.46 million LinkedIn passwords have been obtained by a Russian hacker. Fortunately, the leaked passwords are lightly encrypted. The time to change your password is right now while the hackers are still busy trying to crack the encryption. Although LinkedIn has not released an official statement about this, […]