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Month: June 2012

Largest-Ever Password Study: We Are All Idiots

Some things are inevitable like death and taxes…..and weak passwords. According to a new study that took a look at 70 million Yahoo users accounts, nothing much has changed in the password encryption arena: we still suck.

“We find surprisingly little variation in guessing difficulty; every identifiable group of users generated a comparably weak password distribution.”

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Microsoft Confirms $15 Windows 8 Upgrade

Speculation that Microsoft would offer new computer buy upgrades to Windows 8 for $15 was confirmed on Thursday by Microsoft. The announcement was made on the same day the company released the next stage of its Windows 8 rollout. The upgrade program will be available for new PC’s with Windows 7 until Jan 31st, 2013.

Microsoft will offer the deal to computer buyers in 131 markets, including the U.S. and Canada.

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