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simplified signon: Australian passwords are the toughest

By ⋅ September 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

A PayPal Australia and ACIS paper has found that 90 per cent of Aussies are confident their passwords aren’t guessable and reuse one password across many sites for simplified signon. … many Australian internet users underestimated the threat from cyber criminals that steal passwords from one site and use attempt to use them across other [...]

simplified signon: No password needed for dropbox

By ⋅ June 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

DropBox inadvertently implemented simplified signon yesterday when a code change negated the need for passwords for around 4 hours. The bug was published at 1:54pm Pacific time, discovered at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46. For a change that quick, I guess they either rolled back the authentication code, or it was a really simple bug [...]

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