A researcher took a look at the 10,000 leaked Hotmail accounts and pulled out the most popular password
Most Common Hotmail Password Revealed!
Surprise!! Surprise!! It's
123456! |
This awful password appeared 64 times out of the 10,000 leaked passwords. [Wired]
An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin, including accounts on email domains like @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com.
Microsoft has confirmed the leak, so if you're a Live Hotmail user and you suspect you may have been affected, now's the time to change that password.
For the rest of us—well, this may serve as a reminder that it might be a good time to do a password refresh
A few hours ago Internet search mogul Google removed the Pirate Bay frontpage from its search results. According to the company this action was taken after it received a DMCA takedown request.
Google just started handing out Wave invites, and they're planning to dish out more all day. The door is open to 100,000 new users; if you're one of the lucky ones, you can share the love (and your invites) here.
They are sending out those invitations by hand (that is, it's not an automated push to every single user), so it will probably take some time.
If you were lucky enough to get an invite, you'll also score eight invitations of your own that you can hand out to your friends and colleagues. If you're interested in sharing the love with your fellow Technophilia readers post a comment and let others know you've got an invitation to share.
Good luck, Everybody!
On September 2, 1969, two computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, exchanged some data. And that exchange of the meaningless data was the beginning of a revolution called Internet that changed the way the world communicated breaking the geographical boundaries.
