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Twitter Bans 370 Passwords: Too Easy to Hack

If you’re one of the many who protects your identity with the password “doctor”, “ferrari”, “peanuts”, “startrek” or the particularly ambiguous “password123″, no longer will you be able to sign up to a new Twitter account with your usual catchphrase. In the face of new hacks and bots roaming the net to steal passwords to [...]

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A pinch of curiosity, a few clicks of a mouse and hoorah! Access to 3 Mobile’s database and 80,000 personal details!

A curious reader of Bitterwallet.com, known as ‘Dan’ stumbled across a 3 Mobile database containing almost 80,000 names and addresses of UK citizens. Although exact details of how Dan came across this information cannot be revealed, it was apparently very simple. Here’s a taster image below of the list of names and addresses.  Bitterwallet have [...]

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