Learn step-by-step how to use Facebook Trusted Contacts and get to know the pros and cons using the new security feature to restore access to your account. Many web services are already offering two-step authentication, a security method that basically integrates secondary password, typically a code, to allow users to regain access to their accounts. [...]
It’s here folks, better late than never, Microsoft is slowing rolling out two-factor authentication to further secure the Microsoft account — the one passport to access Xbox Live, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Skype, Office, to unlock your Windows 8 PCs, and practically everything else. It is not a requirement, but you should enable it, because it will [...]
It’s coming folks, better late than never, according to a new report at LiveSide, the software giant is getting ready to include two-factor authentication to the Microsoft account. Similar to Apple and Google, Microsoft account two-factor authentication means that in addition of entering your password at login, you’ll also have to provide a security code generated by an [...]
Once again is time for another Patch Tuesday, Microsoft this time is releasing fixes for a total of 57 security related issues found in Windows 8, Windows RT, and IE 10 with 12 new Windows updates. As part of this monthly release there is one update specific to Surface RT, which fixes the now well-known [...]
If you are a Google Chrome user, today you have another security layer that might just come in handy at the time to keep those links private. Secure Bookmarks is an extension for the web browser that password protect bookmarks. There are many scenarios where you’ll find this pretty useful. For example, you visit certain [...]
Today Twitter has been transparent with its users announcing that the microblogging site has been bridged and around 250,000 users accounts has been compromised. According to Twitter’s Blog, the company discovered some unusual activity in a few accounts. As the investigation continued, they’ve revoked access to every compromised account, and immediately sent an email to those affected users requiring them to reset their passwords. [...]
Microsoft is today putting an end to the vulnerability found in old versions of Internet Explorer (6-8) that allowed an attacker to execute harmful code in a target computer, if the user was tricked by a specially crafted website. Soon after the security hole was found, the software giant quickly made available a temporary workaround [...]
Oracle just issued an update to fix the security exploits in Java that could allow malicious websites to install a piece of software without the user’s consent. The security hole was being actively exploited that even forced the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advice users to disable Java altogether. Today, the company released an emergency [...]
Previously, we heard that Microsoft’s Windows RT OS had been jailbroken opening the doors to run unsigned ARM-based desktop applications. After reports around the web starting pouring, the software giant stated that it wasn’t something that could compromise Windows’ security, and applauded the ingenuity “of the folks who worked this out”. However, now a user known as Netham45 [...]
Today, Microsoft made available a “Fix it” to temporarily mitigate the recent vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 8, 7 and 6. The vulnerability documented as Microsoft Security Advisory (2794220), at the Security TechCenter website, describes the security hole as an exploit that could allow an attacker to execute remote code in a target machine through “a specially crafted website” — For [...]