Has Your Password Been Hacked?

Recently Dropbox has been in the news regarding hacked account credentials. Before that, it was LinkedIn with stolen email addresses and password hashes, and also, Snapchat, Tumblr, Adobe, Android Forums, Bell, Comcast, Dominos, Yahoo, and the list goes on. How does a person know if their login credentials (e.g. email address, password) have been compromised?

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Forwarded Email / Google Account

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received this notification (below). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received a different notification (you can read it here). Copy of Client Notification (Forwarded Version)…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Email / Google Account (Normal)

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes that were originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received a different notification (you can read it here). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received this notification (below). Copy of Client Notification…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Emerge2 Servers

This week a website security vulnerability nicknamed “Heartbleed” was discovered and a patch subsequently made available for server operators. This particular bug has also been reported in the general news media. Emerge2 has examined and tested each of our servers and verified that none of our servers contain any of the vulnerable code and therefore…

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Twitter Security Flaw Today with OnMouseOver [UPDATED]

Link: Twitter Security Flaw Today with OnMouseOver [UPDATED] A security bug or flaw was discovered today on Twitter.com, and quickly became widely exploited. It let an exploiter craft a tweet in a certain manner, and when any other user moved their mouse over the tweet (without clicking), that unsuspecting user had the pre-programmed action executed…

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