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Is your website hackable? Why you need to worry (Page 1 of 3)

Apocalypse Now

Just because you think your data is safe does not mean your database of sensitive organization information has not already been cloned and is resident elsewhere ready to be sold to the highest bidder. To make matters worse, only recently, it has been discovered that hackers are not simply selling your; they’re also selling the fact that you have vulnerabilities to others be they hackers, industrial spies or terrorists.

It all sounds apocalyptic, doesn’t it? Well, rather than being an angel of doom, I’ll let the stats speak for themselves.

TJX Companies Inc.,

TJX Companies, owners of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, Winners, HomeGoods, A.J. Wright, and Bob’s stores, on the 17th January this year, disclosed that 40 million of their customers’ credit and debit card details were stolen. In parallel, federal credit union SEFCU published a similar warning that the personal details of 10,000 of its customers were compromised in the hack attack.

Another 60 banks including Citizen Union Savings Bank and Bank of America seem to have customers whose credit and debit cards have been breached in this attack.

Ben Cammarata, Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of TJX Companies, stated that the nature of the hack is not known and two computer security experts are at hand examining the problem. The warning issued by SEFCU sheds greater light and states “A fraudster may have gained access to … card information through one of those entities in the payment network, including the merchant.”

SC Magazine reports that hackers used data from the breach to purchase goods in a number of states in the US, in Hong Kong and in Sweden.

A digest of the latest developments follows:

* According to 3WCAX-TV Website, the attack is expected to cost consumers one-point-five (M) million dollars. This article was published before law suits started sprouting. * Brian Fraga, Standard-Times, reports that a class action lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court (Boston) against TJX. The amount of damages sought is undisclosed. According to SC Magazine, yesterday a West Virginia resident slapped another lawsuit and is suing TJX for $5 million. * U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the hacking, according to a eport today in the Boston Globe. * Today, the Government of Canada, stated that it is launching an investigation into TJX and the data breach. * Of note is that the hacking may have started in May 2006 and the breach was discovered only in December 2006 (and publicized in January 2007).

Universities

University systems are usually highly decentralized which makes it hard to ensure tight security. To the extent that one department may have deployed a hardened security infrastructure while others loll in lax measures making the whole system weak.

Windows 8 Password Recovery Tips

According to Wikipedia, a password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource. The password should be kept secret from those not allowed access. And if you forget your Windows 8 password, you need to do Windows 8 password recovery.

No one can deny the important role a password plays in computer security, but a password may bring you serious troubles, even disasters. If you forgot Windows password without a password reset disk or an accessible administrator password, it’s often suggested that you should reinstall Windows to get back in your PC. Under this circumstance, don’t you think it’s a big disaster for you if there’re many confidential files on the computer?

What should you feel lucky is that various third party Windows password recovery tool could bring you out of this disaster, like Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery. It can help you instantly reset forgotten password on Windows 7/Vista/XP. But what if you forgot Windows 8 password? Although the new operating system hasn’t come out, you can imagine some Windows 8 password recovery solutions. As we now, it’s not at all like the Windows operating systems you’ve come to know over the past 25 years.

Like Windows 7 supporting fingerprint logon, Windows 8 is said to support facial logon, according to the earlier rumors on internet. A “detect human presence” API is in an early copy of Windows 8, according to an article on Slashgear. Details are scarce, but this could be related to facial recognition technologies noted in mid-2010 in Windows 8 planning documents that Microsoft shared with partners. So if you need to do Windows 8 password recovery, you can achieve it by using facial logon.

Besides, you can log on to Windows 8 through a graphical password instead of traditional text password if you fail to keep it in mind. When you logon the Windows 8 operating system, two ways are available: traditional text password and graphical codes. Graphical passwords are an alternative means of authentication for log-in intended to be used in place of conventional password; they use images, graphics or colors instead of letters, digits or special characters.

In Windows 8, the users can custom their own logon password in a 4*4 array picture. If a device of touch screen is in use, users can logon directly with touch on it. Besides the picture constituted by the 4*4 array, win 8 users can also choose a picture on computer to set the password after enter the operating system.

When your forget your Windows 8 password, maybe these Windows 8 password recovery tips can help you perform Windows 8 password reset. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that Windows 8 will launch in 2012, but the company hasn’t been any more specific than that. Expect more details on Windows 8 in September, when Microsoft will hold the BUILD conference for developers.

Windows 8 Password Recovery Tips

According to Wikipedia, a password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource. The password should be kept secret from those not allowed access. And if you forget your Windows 8 password, you need to do Windows 8 password recovery.

No one can deny the important role a password plays in computer security, but a password may bring you serious troubles, even disasters. If you forgot Windows password without a password reset disk or an accessible administrator password, it’s often suggested that you should reinstall Windows to get back in your PC. Under this circumstance, don’t you think it’s a big disaster for you if there’re many confidential files on the computer?

What should you feel lucky is that various third party Windows password recovery tool could bring you out of this disaster, like Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery. It can help you instantly reset forgotten password on Windows 7/Vista/XP. But what if you forgot Windows 8 password? Although the new operating system hasn’t come out, you can imagine some Windows 8 password recovery solutions. As we now, it’s not at all like the Windows operating systems you’ve come to know over the past 25 years.

Like Windows 7 supporting fingerprint logon, Windows 8 is said to support facial logon, according to the earlier rumors on internet. A “detect human presence” API is in an early copy of Windows 8, according to an article on Slashgear. Details are scarce, but this could be related to facial recognition technologies noted in mid-2010 in Windows 8 planning documents that Microsoft shared with partners. So if you need to do Windows 8 password recovery, you can achieve it by using facial logon.

Besides, you can log on to Windows 8 through a graphical password instead of traditional text password if you fail to keep it in mind. When you logon the Windows 8 operating system, two ways are available: traditional text password and graphical codes. Graphical passwords are an alternative means of authentication for log-in intended to be used in place of conventional password; they use images, graphics or colors instead of letters, digits or special characters.

In Windows 8, the users can custom their own logon password in a 4*4 array picture. If a device of touch screen is in use, users can logon directly with touch on it. Besides the picture constituted by the 4*4 array, win 8 users can also choose a picture on computer to set the password after enter the operating system.

When your forget your Windows 8 password, maybe these Windows 8 password recovery tips can help you perform Windows 8 password reset. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that Windows 8 will launch in 2012, but the company hasn’t been any more specific than that. Expect more details on Windows 8 in September, when Microsoft will hold the BUILD conference for developers.