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Twitch Experiences Security Breach, Requires Users To Change Their Passwords

Tanya T.

March 23, 2015
Filed in: Security • Technology


Due to a recent security breach, Twitch has reset all user passwords and stream keys. Now all users will need to reset their password in order to be able to log in. In this bulletin today, Twitch stated, "We also recommend that you change your password at any website where you use the same or a similar password." Twitch further stated that any users who were... read more
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AOL Mail Alienates The Last Remnants Of Its Users By Requiring Phone Verification, Drops Into Obscurity

Tanya T.

February 12, 2015
Filed in: Internet Security • Technology


Aol Mail has done it, finally dropped into obscurity. How? By forcing phone verification on all new mail accounts. Not only phone verification, but forced required phone from "valid networks" and only if you can receive texts - and not VOIP. It's not that anyone in the world can't receive texts. It's that for anyone with half a wit who cares enough about their privacy to... read more