Monday, January 31, 2011

PSA: Change your old Amazon.com password for better security

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Amazon's allegedly got an security flaw where hackers can find your
password much easier than they would otherwise, and there's already a
fix in place. But get this -- you'll probably need to change your
password for the fix to take effect, if you haven't already done so in
the last couple of years. According to Reddit users, the Amazon.com
login system will actually accept any phrase so long as it begins with
your password, such as "password123" when the magic word is simply
"password" by itself. That apparently makes it that much easier for a
computer to guess your password via brute force methods, no matter how
counter-intuitive that seems, so if you simply change it immediately
-- and to something other than "password," please -- you'll have much
sounder dreams.

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