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The latest password breaking scandal claims that Yahoo has lost nearly half a million user’s passwords and email addresses to hacker group D33D. The little-known group claims they stole the passwords using an SQL injection which utilizes rogue commands to extract data from websites. This follows the 6.4 million LinkedIn users whose accounts were hacked last month. So you know that you have to have to create secure passwords, and that each website you sign up to should have a separate password,

Kickstarter [http://www.kickstarter.com/] is the unlikely hero of the cyberworld, and a very very good idea. It’s a hard sell if you think about it; people who have great ideas, but no way to produce them ask you to buy items that have not yet been produced (and may possibly never be) to be delivered at a much later date. It’s not a formula that seems like it would work in these difficult economic times and with consumers who are accustomed to instant gratification, and yet Kickstarter has seen

Have you seen the video of the talking dog [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw] lamenting the loss of his favorite items from the fridge to the housecat? Or maybe the video of the David after the dentist [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs]? With the addition of advertising to its online experience, YouTube has passed the earnings on to those videos that go viral. So successful has this proven to be that several YouTube contributors are starting to quit their day jobs. “Some of

And here is another friendly reminder for enhanced online security from Mogo: Change your passwords regularly! Here is the list of the 25 most common online passwords [http://blog.eset.com/2012/06/07/passwords-and-pins-the-worst-choices]: > * password * 123456 * 12345678 * 1234 * qwerty * 12345 * dragon * pussy * baseball * football * letmein * 696969 * abc123 * mustang * michael * shadow * master * jennifer * 111111 * 2000 * jordan * superman * harley * 1234567 Be h