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One Of The 32 Million With A RockYou Account? You May Want To Change All Your Passwords. Like Now.


From: David Shettler <dave () opensecurityfoundation org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:01:51 -0500

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403536.html

It's no secret that most people use the same password over and over
again for most of the services they sign up for. While it's obviously
convenient, this becomes a major problem if one of those services is
compromised. And that looks to be the case with RockYou, the social
network app maker.

Over the weekend, the security firm Imperva issued a warning to
RockYou that there was a serious SQL Injection flaw in their database

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