For the latest developments in business technology news, follow on Twitter. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. Windows 7 All-in-One For Dummies by Woody Leonhard. This story, " LastPass teams with PwnedList to flag stolen accounts," was originally published at. For Enterprise customers, both the individual and the administrator receive notifications that a match has been found. LastPass is offering the unique service to its free and Premium individual customers, as well as to corporate Enterprise customers. The Underground Guide To Word For Windows Woody Leonhard, Study Guide For Mann/Roberts Essentials Of Business Law And The Legan Environment, 10thBarry S. If the scan picks up a cracked credential, the user is notified via email which says that right now would be a very good time to change the cracked password, not only on the compromised server, but anywhere else you might be using the same username/password combination. The service is free, and opt-out via an email sent to the user." LastPass spokesperson Amber Gott explained the mechanics of the new service to me this way: "We do batch checking nightly, against the whole database. A noted authority on Microsoft Windows, Woody Leonhard is a contributing editor at PC Computing and publisher of the infamous electronic newsletter Woodys. There's also an option for companies to monitor their domain names and receive notification if any of their corporate email accounts have been posted. There's an option to submit your username and password in a one-way encrypted form, so PwnedList can't harvest your username. PwnedList has both an online checker, where you can submit a username/password combination to see if it's on the compromised list, and a pre-emptive service that monitors new additions to the database, to see if your credentials have been hacked. PwnedList's comprehensive list of "pwned" accounts - compromised log-on IDs and passwords that have been posted in public and semi-public areas - has grown from 12 million in March to almost 24 million today. With more than a million regular readers, hes Senior Contributing Editor at InfoWorld, and Senior Editor at Windows Secrets, where he weighs in daily on all things Windows. Under the terms of a just announced agreement, PwnedList will provide its continuously updated database to LastPass so that it can perform a daily batch scan of all LastPass user accounts and generate email notifications for any username/password combinations that have been compromised. About the author (2015) Woody Leonhard has covered Windows Dummies foibles and fantasies since the days of Windows XP. Starting today, users of online password manager LastPass will receive email notification about a free and potentially invaluable new service that is based on the extensive list of hacked accounts maintained by PwnedList.
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