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Summary: Access Now has launched a petition to pass the Password Protection Act (PPA), a bill looking to protect employees from employers asking for access to their social networking accounts. Last week, a group of Democrats introduced ...
May 16, 2012 at 05:30 | Source: ZDNet
The ever-present need for security means that every account that you have online, and probably on your computer as well, needs to be protected with a username and password. If you have taken the wise step of ensuring that all of your passwords ...
May 23, 2012 at 02:23 | Source: Beta News
May 20, 2012, 6:00 PM — Both modern Windows systems (e.g., Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2) and Active Directory, like Linux and Solaris systems, allow you to configure password policies that determine how long and complex your users’ passwords must be ...
May 20, 2012 at 22:07 | Source: IT World
Commenting on reports that a security developer has concluded that password-creation policies are the enemy of secure passwords, SecurEnvoy co-founder Steve Watts says that the fundamental issue is that conventional ID/password security is now ...
May 18, 2012 at 10:35 | Source: Help Net Security
We haven't bought a new PC at Best Buy, well... probably since we investigated that whole optimized laptop thing a couple years back. So we haven't seen the above sheet that not only allows you to choose from a variety of useless Geek Squad services, but ...
May 21, 2012 at 17:41 | Source: Consumerist.com
Microsoft first released its Windows XP operating system in 2001. It has since been replaced with newer version of Windows Vista, Windows 7/8. But now the XP version is still widely used and it won’t die in the near future. Although Windows XP has been ...
May 23, 2012 at 02:08 | Source: PR-USA.net
One of the great intellectual new talents of this century has been training one's mind to remember all one's passwords. Because writing them down always seems so very dangerous. However, it seems that Best Buy's Geek Squad is rather keen for you ...
May 16, 2012 at 23:31 | Source: CNET News
Don't write your password down. Everybody knows that. Except the people who don't, of course. And for those people, Best Buy's computer setup forms aren't helping. Ars Technica reports on a "PC Recommendation Worksheet" given to buyers of new PCs at a Best ...
May 22, 2012 at 11:49 | Source: The Business Journal
In a better world, vulnerable accounts like banks, medical records, e-mail, and cloud drives would be protected with biometric systems. A swipe of a finger or a retina scan would allow access to your most important data. Alas, eight-or-more-character ...
May 11, 2012 at 06:47 | Source: CNet
If you have forgotten your BIOS password on your desktop PC, the easiest way to reset it and regain access to your computer is to open up the casing and physically remove the CMOS battery (it's a round and silver object) from the motherboard. After doing ...
May 17, 2012 at 01:33 | Source: CNET Asia