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How to Keep Your Passwords Private

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Ever wondered what types of online threats you can run into simply by browsing the web? How a seemingly legitimate website could affect your privacy or your data? Bitdefender 2019 Network Threat Prevention technology protects you against all that. Pass… Continue reading How to Keep Your Passwords Private→

Twitter Plain Text Password Bug Prompts Users for Immediate Password Change

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Twitter has warned its 330 million users to immediately change their passwords, as a result of a bug that caused passwords to be logged in plaintext before being hashed. Although Twitter says passwords are stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm, it … Continue reading Twitter Plain Text Password Bug Prompts Users for Immediate Password Change→