Contents tagged with Security
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Securely Transmit a Secret [password]
“Help, Dick, Help!” exclaimed Sally. “I lost my password” “Look, Jane, Look,” said Dick. “I emailed you your password.” Jane sees her password. Everybody sees her password. Jane is sad. Dick is sad. Transmitting secret information, such as a password, to a user across the Internet is often mishandled. One common way is to send the password through email. While
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Mozilla Takes Web Browsing Security to a New Level
Mozilla just released version 36 of its popular web browser Firefox. This new release introduces an important change. Some weak security certificates are no longer trusted by the browser. Why is this of interest? Well it’ll change web browsing for over 20% of web users. That’s one in five!