The Most Common Numbers in 10 Million Passwords
The primary purpose of a password is to serve as an unique verification identifier for a given user. Ideally, the password for a given website or service should be both random and unique; if the letters and/or numbers in the password follow any patterns, then they might be easier to guess by an intruder. For…
Privacy & Security
Max Woolf
How to Remove Superfish Adware From Your Lenovo Computer
We recently learned that PC manufacturer Lenovo is selling computers preinstalled with a dangerous piece of software, called Superfish, that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to break Windows’ encrypted Web connections for the sake of advertising. (Here’s a list of affected products.) Research from EFF’s Decentralized SSL Observatory has seen many thousands of Superfish certificates that…
Privacy & Security
Adi Kamdar - Electronic Frontier Foundation
