11 posts and columns on login

Janrain Raises $15.5M for Social Log-ins

in Social on August 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

Managing online identities used to be a niche cause full of acronyms and hypotheticals, but now that the Web is getting more personalized it’s become obvious how integral this topic is.
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Don't Want to Sign In to Yahoo? That's Okay, Use Your Facebook or Google ID.

in Social on January 18, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

Yahoo this week will begin allowing users to participate on its properties without signing in to a Yahoo account. It’s a significant move for the company, which had for a long time incessantly popped up login screens whenever visitors tried to do seemingly anything on the site.

Millions of Honda Owners Victims of Yet Another Data Breach

in Enterprise on December 29, 2010 at 10:25 am PT

If you drive a Honda, be wary of emails asking personal questions. The carmaker says a list containing names, email addresses and vehicle identification numbers has been stolen.

Facebook to Big Media: We Like You. We Really, Really Like You.

in Media on December 16, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Facebook has 550 million friends, but it’s working extra hard to woo a very specific group: Heavyweight media companies. It might be working! See: A proposed linkup between the social network, Time Warner’s cable channels and Verizon’s FiOS TV.

The Gawker Hack Ripple Hits LinkedIn

in Media on December 14, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

Gawker Media is still cleaning up the mess left by a hacker attack this weekend, but now other sites have their own work to do. Today’s example: LinkedIn temporarily disabled the accounts of users whose email accounts were exposed during Gawkergate.

Nick Denton "So Very Sorry" About Giant Gawker Media Hack

in Media on December 13, 2010 at 10:56 am PT

It takes something pretty catastrophic for Nick Denton to apologize in public. So mark this one down: The Gawker Media owner says he’s “so very sorry” about the hacking attack that exposed some 1.5 million of his readers’ passwords.

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Gawker Hacked. If You've Left a Comment on a Nick Denton Site, Change Your Password ASAP.

in Media on December 12, 2010 at 12:47 pm PT

Have you left a comment on one of Gawker Media’s sites? If so, you should change your password there, and on any other sites where you’ve used the same login/password combination, as soon as possible. Gawker says its “user databases appear to have been compromised” by hackers. More background from Mediaite and The Next Web.

Looks Like Facebook Connect Is Coming to Myspace Tomorrow

in Social on November 17, 2010 at 10:26 pm PT

Myspace and Facebook have just invited the press to a joint GoToMeeting webinar (how very not social media!) tomorrow at noon PT. The announcement comes on the heels of a report from the Telegraph on Wednesday that Myspace plans to integrate Facebook Connect “imminently.”

Yahoo Finds More Real Estate to Sell: Ads Come to the Login Page

in Media on June 14, 2010 at 8:32 am PT

If Google can decorate its famously pristine homepage, then everything else is fair game too: Yahoo has started renting out its third most popular page to marketers.

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Will You Remember Your PayPhrase?

in News on October 30, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

We already have a ton of passwords to remember. Now Amazon.com wants us to remember something new–PayPhrase–which has already sparked an online pile on. The program, which Amazon announced Wednesday, is supposed to replace ordinary login and password combinations with a phrase and PIN combination that are linked to a specific account and shipping address.