The full article "Generation I (I for Insecure)?" is based on research by Check Point the firm behind Zone Alarm and looks at the differing attitudes of Baby Boomers (ages 56-65) and Generation Y (ages 18-25) to security risks when using internet & social networking sites. The "oldies" are security conscious, the youngsters rather less so. (Research only download as 1.45MB pdf from http://www.pcpro.co.uk/links/216sec - the article itself isn't available online yet - presumably held back from PCPRO's website http://www.pcpro.co.uk while current magazine edition is on sale.)Davey Winder wrote:
......a neat tool called PwnedList (https://pwnedlist.com), which will check whether your email address has appeared in any of the hacker dumps from corporate data breaches that appear online..... if it has you should set about a password-changing strategy immediately. PwnedList started when security researchers wondered how many compromised accounts could be harvested automatically by a scraping routine - the answer was 30,000 wihin 2 hours, complete with logins and passwords attached. The number of "pwned" emails harvested and compiled is now almost 24 million. It should be noted that PwnedList only scrapes the emails, and the accompanying password and login data is discarded. the emails are put through a one-way hash and the cleartext is then destroyed, and when you enter your email address in the checker it isn't stored in any form.
I've tried all mine and then some of my friends' accounts that had been hacked - but all got a "NOPE" from PwnedList!