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by Nick Hubble, Daily Reckoning.com.au: The always entertaining Eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage summed up how Europeans should interpret the Cyprus deposit theft : ‘Get your money out while you can!’ Even your editor’s German grandmother is panicking now that deposits aren’t safe in Europe. ‘Happy Birthday Nick,’ she wrote in an email. ‘Send me your account details so I can send you some money as a gift.’ Nothing wrong with that. Except that the birthday wishes are a month early. Clearly a deposit [...] Don’t pick an obvious password might seem like an obvious piece of advice. But despite security warnings a shocking number of internet users continue to use some of the most blatant letter and number combinations. In the wake of a security breach at Yahoo a Slovakian IT security company has released a list of the most commonly used passwords for hacked accounts. ESET carried out a study of the almost half a million [...] THE TOP TEN: 1. ‘123456‘ used by 1666 (0.38%) 2. ‘password’ used by 780 (0.18%) 3. ‘welcome’ used by 436 (0.1%) 4. ‘ninja’ used by 333 (0.08%) 5. ‘abc123′ used by 250 (0.06%) 6. ’123456789′ used by 222 (0.05%) 7. ’12345678′ used by 208 (0.05%) 8. ‘sunshine’ used by 205 (0.05%) 9. ‘princess’ used by 202 (0.05%) 10. ‘qwerty’ used by 172 (0.04%) Don’t pick an obvious password might seem like an obvious piece of advice. But despite security warnings a shocking [...] Helmet time. From Oanda “Due to the extreme volatility some market analysts foresee could result in the coming days, OANDA fxTrade will not accept any trading activity from 6:00 AM EST until approximately 3:00 PM EST, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. OANDA believes the convergence of a major market event during off-market hours represents a potential trading risk and has taken this rare step to protect traders from excessive rate fluctuations. Please note that during [...] By Lea Yu and Xuyan Fang, Caixin Online Millions of Chinese in the last week have rushed to change their passwords and online account details, after a huge cache of personal data from China’s most popular websites leaked onto the web last week. Between December 21 and 26, hackers released the account information for more than 100 million Internet usernames, passwords and emails, spanning dozens of China’s most popular online shopping, microblogging, social [...] Former Swiss private banker, Rudolf Elmer, is about to give the site reams of data on who is secretly using offshore bank accounts. He will hand over the data at a news conference tomorrow, according to Der Sonntage newspaper, via Reuters. A former Swiss private banker who was one of the first whistleblowers to use WikiLeaks by publishing internal bank documents on the site has pledged [...] |
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