http://tidbits.com/ Twitter reset the passwords for 250,000 users last week after it became aware of numerous unauthorized access attempts. According to Twitter’s Director of Information Security Bob Lord “…attackers may have had access to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords” for a quarter of a million accounts. Although it would be inconvenient to have someone else posting to your account, the greater danger is to people who reuse passwords among other services. As always, we recommend creating strong passwords, preferably using tools such as 1Password or LastPass. en-us Copyright 2013 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13537?rss#comments_17584 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:35:44 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13537#comments_17584 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13537?rss#comments_17583 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:40:51 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13537#comments_17583