If your password is “password,” then you are using the most popular password in the world. And it follows that it is also the least secure on the web, this is according to SplashData’s latest list of most popular

The Maryland State Senate passed a bill titled “Labor and Employment – User Name and Password Privacy Protection and Exclusions” which if signed into law would make Maryland the first state to forbid employers from requiring job candidates to provide their logon names and passwords for their Twitter, Facebook, or any internet account.
 
The synopsis of the bill, which is “crossified” with a House bill 964, reads in part: “Prohibiting an employer from requesting or requiring …

Facebook Enters Fray Over Employers’ Demands for Job Applicants’ Passwords

Social networking giant Facebook is warning employers that they may face legal action if they indeed demand Facebook passwords from users applying for jobs.
The Associated Press, reporting from New York this morning, said the reported widespread practice of prospective employers asking for applicants’ social media passwords is an invasion of privacy that could open such companies to possible lawsuits.
A Facebook …

Password To A Job Is A Password?

Would you give the job interviewer your username and password to Facebook, for instance, as part of your resume as a condition to landing that badly needed job?
This question came up again today when the Associated Press reported that a jobseeker in Seattle, USA was shocked when his job interviewer asked for his username and password to Facebook, ostensibly as part of the information gathering process related to his application.
AP said the jobseeker refused …

Don’t use “password” as your password on the internet, even though that should be commonsensical, a new report says.
That valuable nugget of information comes from the SplashData annual list of the ultimate worst passwords you can have for sites on the internet.
According to SplashData, here are the 25 worst passwords you can pick for your …

Gmail users in Iran who tried to open their accounts this weekend were facing the risk of theft of their passwords and log-in credentials, reports CNET. This all happened after someone broke into DigiNotar, a Dutch company, in an attempt to steal the digital equivalent of a security certificate for Google.com.
“The people affected were primarily located in Iran,” Google said in a post. “The attacker used a fraudulent [Secure Sockets Layer] certificate issued by DigiNotar, a root …