Word: password
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chest when he gets excited. Please advise!—Good Walls Make Good Neighbors What kind of person doesn’t have a wall? Here’s what you do: buy him a drink, find out his childhood pet’s name (undoubtedly his facebook password), log on to his account, and create one for him.Problem Solved!SaraDear Sara,I sent you an email earlier in the week and you mocked my alliteration. That hurt. How can I recover from this blow to my self-esteem?—Whining Whistfully in Winthrop Whining...
Just got to have that red-hot Gnarls Barkley single before it even hits iTunes? Good luck. Gone are the days when a simple password was all that stood in the way of a best-selling artist's next hit landing in the wrong hands. The music industry has turned to the next generation of online security to thwart cyberthieves--one that may soon extend to other security-sensitive cybertransactions like banking...
...Stanford University scientists applied the technique to computer security. But it was not until BioPassword bought the patents from the school in 2002 that keystroke dynamics found its first commercial use. BioPassword's developers harnessed the technology into portable software and began selling it in 2004 as a backup password-protection authentication method for many online sites. Now more than 30 companies, or about half a million users, have signed on. As BioPassword CEO Mark Upson puts it, "For $1 per user annually, you've got online security that can't be sold, lost or replicated...
BioPassword's best customers so far are banks and credit unions, which are under federal mandate to adopt stronger authentication measures to protect online customers against identity theft and other fraud. To access account information, online banking generally requires a password with a maximum of 10 character points. Biometric IDs have more than 80 distinct data points...
DOUBLE-CHECK E-MAIL REQUESTS Stickley sets up a fake e-mail address and credit-union website, then sends out e-mails claiming to be from the credit union's IT manager, asking employees to "test" the new website by entering their own account and password information. They often give Stickley all he needs to empty out those accounts...