Last year (2009), hackers breached Google’s network and stole the source code for their global password system.
This checklist will help you choose a strong password both at work and at home.
The social site ‘RockYou’ suffered a data breached that resulted in the exposure of more than 32 Million user accounts. To further compound the security breach severity, it was found that RockYou were storing all the user account data in their database in plain text. This made it easier for hackers to obtain and expose the information.