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OAuth is a simple standard for simple API authentication.
OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why one should not share their private credentials. Giving your email account password to a social network site so they can look up your friends is the same thing as going to dinner and giving your ATM card and PIN code to the waiter when it’s time to pay. Any restaurant asking for your PIN code will go out of business, but when it comes to the web, users put themselves at risk sharing the same private information. OAuth to the rescue

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Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker

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A demonstration of social engineering on Comcast Customer Service

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We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken?

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Earlier this week a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she

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Deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.

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Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux

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