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Report: Apple Passwords Can Be Reset With Just Email And Birthday
Have you turned on your Apple ID two-step verification yet? You’ll want to get on that. A report from The Verge indicates that if you haven’t, hackers can change your password with nothing more than your email address and your birthday.
Google Must Teach People How To Use Passwords As Part Of Settlement
Remember a few years ago when Google got itself in that whole little Street-View-cars-collecting-personal-Wi-Fi-network-data debacle? Well, it looks like the case is finally being settled, and it’s not just the people who had their privacy stripped before their very eyes that are benefiting; everyone gets a piece of the pie!
Swarm Of Dummy Cursors Hides Your Laptop Password In Public
If you’re particularly paranoid about someone peeping your computer’s password while working in a public place, Japanese researchers have come up with a clever solution to the problem. Instead of using your laptop’s keyboard, you use an on-screen pin pad to type your password. But the cursor movement is completely obfuscated by a swarm of other randomly moving cursors.
Evernote Adds Two-Factor Authentication Following Hack
Evernote was forced to reset passwords for all its users over the weekend after noticing something fishy. Now, the company says it will adopt two-factor authentication to prevent further mishaps. Finally!
Mega Is Going To Handle Password Resets Different Than Everybody Else
Right now, Mega, the zombie file-sharing service currently only useful for people with infinite patience and/or dial up internet, doesn’t offer any sort of password reset or recovery system. If you forget your Mega password, you’re out of luck.
Google Makes Moves To Kill The Password
Passwords are long and complicated and hard to remember. And that’s only if they’re good passwords. No matter how you slice it, passwords are annoying and on top of that, they’re not even all that secure. Google knows that all too well, and it’s pushing for the next big thing. A ring maybe. Like for your finger.
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