AWS login information was stored in plain text on GitHub.
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Storing passwords in plain text is a poor security practice.
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years Today's big Facebook whoopsie is the revelation that the company stored millions of passwords in plain text in various databases throughout the company.
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Though the passwords were stored in plain text, they were at least stored in plain text inside Google's servers, so they'd be harder to get to than if they were just out on the open internet.
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If the icon doesn't appear, Gmail is probably set to plain text mode—click Compose, untick the Plain text mode option from the pop-up menu in the lower right, then refresh the page to try again.
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Turns out, Facebook sends that information to your computer in plain text.
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Shep's name appears in plain text in the last line of code.
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Sensitive data, like Social Security numbers, were also stored in plain text.
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Chatting with friends has come a long way from plain text messaging.
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It included email addresses, user names, plain text passwords, and IP addresses.
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These actions cannot change the plain text and meaning of the Constitution.
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And the plain text somehow makes the often spicy subject matter more subversive.
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If plain text is more your thing, Simplenote is the app for you.
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Storing in plain text means the details were just there for the taking.
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With 220 percent of devices communicating in plain text, breaking in becomes easy.
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A few minutes later, the plain text password appeared on the exposed server.
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We have all of the releases with the tracklistings as just plain text.
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Only Nebula and the genome owner have access to the plain text data.
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The company was storing the passwords of linked Instagram accounts in plain text.
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Gorsuch often focuses on the plain text of a law when analyzing it.
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But when it comes to email, almost all mail servers operate in plain text.
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There's also the option to paste text as plain text or HTML as needed.
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Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text.
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However, other tweets only referenced the match up in plain text, sometimes even vaguely.
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More than 20,000 Facebook employees would have had access to these plain text passwords.
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Test how well bots will comprehend yours by copying it into a plain text file.
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Producing only plain text bores today's teens and prematurely scares many away from the field.
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Just offer plain text chat, for god's sake, and quit it with this reach creep.
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"The plain text of the [Clean Air] Act unambiguously bars cost considerations," the opinion said.
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But the misinformation about the coronavirus shared on WhatsApp is often in plain text form.
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In March, Facebook admitted that it stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text.
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The plain text is the starting point for every effort to interpret an act of Congress.
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These pledges have always been at odds with the plain text of Republican Party tax promises.
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Some devices, including the Quicklock Doorlock & Padlock and the iBluLock Padlock, stored passwords in plain text.
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For example, this past April, millions of Facebook user records, including plain-text passwords, were discovered.
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We didn't need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other users.
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It's a convenient way of dropping new files (like plain text files) right where you want them.
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The plain text of the law, as some federal judges have noted, does not answer the question.
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What individual information is okay to store in plain text, in encrypted form or not at all?
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What is alarming is that this crucial data is just in plain text and accessible to everyone.
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Facebook also recently acknowledged it had been storing some of its users' Facebook passwords in plain text.
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In NPR's case, users must agree to tracking or visit a plain text version of the website.
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It's just plain text characters on a screen, like in the days of DOS, but it works.
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The two companies have extremely similar logos, both using a plain text letter "A" inside a box.
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Some people prefer to get their mail in the plain-text format for security or aesthetic reasons.
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At least on the Android version, the app also stores the user's account name in plain text.
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A lengthy, complex password is pivotal in situations where passwords are leaked (unless they're leaked in plain text).
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And this information, unlike the HIV data, was sometimes shared via "plain text," which can be easily hacked.
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The brief then turns to the "plain text" of Title VII and observes how it protects LGBT people.
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Unless you're just getting your hands on an unlocked device and reading the plain text messages that way.
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The 35-plus crowd prefers plain text messages to communicate, while their younger counterparts have since moved on.
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Files on the device are stored in plain text and can sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote.
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Additionally, the mobile app used to login stored its credentials in plain text, greatly increasing the risk of compromise.
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Twitter just revealed that it made a monumental security blunder by exposing the passwords of users in plain text.
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In this instance, it sounds like Twitter stored plain text passwords openly without any hashing on an internal log.
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The exploit, which Netgear firmly patched, used a bug found in 2014 to expose admin passwords in plain text.
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' passwords were stored in plain text, completely searchable by Facebook employees for years.
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Since then, the company also discovered that hundreds of millions of users' passwords are being stored in plain text.
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"I think under the plain text of the Budget Act of 1974, it satisfies the Byrd test," Cruz said.
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"I think under the plain text of the Budget Act of 1974, it satisfies the Byrd test," he said.
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Google announced in May that it had stored some G Suite users' passwords in unencrypted plain text since 2005.
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"Under the plain text of Title IX, Gavin has stated a claim on which relief can be granted," Block argued.
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Unlike the HIV data, this information is sometimes shared via "plain text," which has raised alarm among some security experts.
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Your friends who aren't using Apple Messages will get a plain text explaining the tapback instead: "laughed at..." for example.
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The internet has come a long way from the bare-bones, plain text and hyperlink look of the first websites.
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For a time, bots were perceived to be plain-text exchanges and as such were often described as "invisible apps".
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"The plain text of the Bankruptcy Code begins and ends our analysis," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion.
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"The plain text of the Bankruptcy Code begin and ends our analysis," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion.
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According to Krebs, Facebook believes that some of the passwords had been stored in plain text as early as 85033.
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According to Krebs, Facebook believes that some of the passwords had been stored in plain text as early as 28503.
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In October 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts, including email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords and plain text password hints were breached.
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Or that you can use Ctrl+Shift+V (or Cmd+Shift+V) to paste plain text without formatting inside the browser?
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When this morse code is mapped to binary and then plain text, it results in—you guessed it—November 22005, 2017.
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The hacker supposedly combed through the internet for Git config files, then extracted credentials listed in plain text to gain access.
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All eyes were on conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch who often focuses on the plain text of a law when analyzing it.
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The company has grown the functionality of DMs by expanding beyond 140 characters and letting people send more than plain text.
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The recently leaked database containing nearly 33 million Twitter login credentials, including passwords in plain text, is definitely the real deal.
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Facebook is still investigating, and will begin alerting people who might have had their passwords stored in the plain text format.
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The software can capture everything on a phone, including the plain text of encrypted messages, and commandeer it to record audio.
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The Center for American Progress also challenged the interim final rule's legality, saying it violates the plain text of the INA.
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Basic texting, if you're just saying, "Hey, I'm gonna be five minutes late," yeah, I send that stuff in plain text.
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Twitter is urging its more than 23 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text.
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However, other shipboard controls like Operation Technology systems managing "the steering gear, engines, ballast pumps and more" communicate in unprotected plain text.
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This poses the usual risks associated with data breaches — an attacker with access to a system can see the plain-text data.
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According to Facebook, there's no evidence that plain text passwords were exposed outside of the company or that they were abused internally.
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Unlike a lot of apps, Notational Velocity has an option to both sync with Simplenote, and store notes as plain text files.
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The continued existence of the vulnerability allowed hackers to access Equifax's servers where they obtained an administrator's credentials stored in plain text.
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You'll also now have the option of loading stories in the plain-text Reader view by default on articles that support it.
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The term itself was minted by Becker, who recognized, at the time, that there was no standardized multilingual plain text for computers.
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But for the nerdy writers like me who find plain text more powerful than a Word document, this one is for you.
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This enabled any attacker that compromised the website's server to immediately have access to this sensitive personal data in plain text. Wow.
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" It also violated the federal law itself and the court declared that such actions "cannot surmount the plain text [of the law].
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Hashing is a common data-privacy practice that converts plain-text data to code that can only be read by an algorithm.
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"And this information, unlike the HIV data, was sometimes shared via 'plain text,' which can be easily hacked," Ghorayshi and Ray wrote.
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They transferred the content of the sites to plain-text documents then used software to analyze the difficulty level of each site's text.
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According to Secorvo's report, the passphrase that's needed to utilize the decrypted certificate was stored in plain text in an easily locatable file.
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Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users' passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with access to certain internal systems.
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Privacy scandals have rocked Facebook on a regular basis, including the revelation that user passwords were stored in plain text just last week.
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It's also true that by the plain text of existing laws and regulations, neither of them definitively seem to need to be confirmed.
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Some users had their passwords stored in plain text as early as 2012, according to a senior Facebook source who spoke to KrebsOnSecurity.
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Facebook announced on Thursday that "hundreds of millions" of users' passwords had been stored in unprotected plain text accessible by the company's employees.
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A new report from earlier this month found that Facebook exposed millions of its Instagram users' passwords by storing them in plain text.
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According to Peace, the passwords were already in plain text when the site was hacked, and were not cracked at a later date.
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But unlike fancy note-taking apps, code editors save everything in plain text documents that you can open on just about any device.
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For the curious, a quick revving of the search engine brings back plenty of other serial-reading opportunities, including many beyond plain text.
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The Gabb phone offers just SMS texting, not MMS, which means you can send plain text messages only — no texting video or pictures.
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Leaked private information, passwords stored as plain text, third-parties with access to an inordinate amount of user data — the list goes on.
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There is no debate that, when armed with a court order, the government can get text messages and other data stored in plain text.
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It may provide some comfort that the passwords were not leaked in plain text, and instead would be encrypted, according to Adidas' vague announcement.
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"T-Mobile US customer care representatives cannot see passwords, and we do not store passwords in plain text," a T-Mobile US spokesperson said.
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"I think it's not flatly in violation of the plain text of the FVRA, but it is certainly inconsistent with its spirit," he said.
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The company's internal investigation has found archives with plain text user passwords stored in them dating back to 2012, the source told Krebs Security.
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One reason I like to keep my notes as plain text files is so I can edit them in my text editor of choice.
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Facebook stored "hundreds of millions" of passwords in plain text in a way where up to 20,000 of its employees could have accessed them.
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Motherboard obtained a sample of the data from Peace, which contained email addresses, usernames, plain text passwords, IP addresses, dates of birth, and more.
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Twitter is urging all of its more than 330 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text.
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According to KrebsOnSecurity, security researcher Dylan Houlihan realized that the information was visible and easily accessible in plain text from Panera's site in August.
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The emails include unencrypted, plain-text listings of donor emails addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, passport numbers, and credit card information.
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Security professional Dylan Houlihan first discovered Panera Bread's website was leaking customer data (including his own) in easily readable plain text in August 2017.
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Looking ahead, Anderson said noted that Amino already goes beyond plain-text posts by allowing users to create things like polls and customized profiles.
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Hashes are a more secure way of storing passwords rather than in plain text, but some forms of hashes can be cracked by hackers.
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Increasingly, companies are putting encryption keys in the control of individual users, meaning that even the firm typically cannot obtain plain-text data itself.
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Twitter just announced before we recorded that there was a breach and they had basically every user's password in plain text sitting around somewhere.
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Thanks to the 14th Amendment, with its plain text authorizing Congress to act in perpetuity, the contours of our federal system continue to shift.
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If those emails are going back and forth in plain text with no protection on them, I would be able to see it, yeah.
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And in October, Apple fixed that and another serious security flaw, which caused the user's password to be revealed in plain text in some scenarios.
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The personal information of tens of thousands of customers of Saks Fifth Avenue has been publicly available in plain text online, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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While Google's security issue arguably pales in comparison, it comes after millions of passwords were discovered stored in plain text by Facebook back in March.
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If a user is on a non-encrypted webpage and types in a username and password, an attacker could see that information in plain text.
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"The plain-text reading of the statute undoubtedly shields fewer individuals from retaliation than the alternative," said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the court.
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These volunteers are tasked with locating a copy of the book in question, scanning it, proofing it, then putting out HTML and plain-text editions.
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Without nerding out, understand that encryption requires a key that unlocks the gobbledegook and enables approved users to read what was encrypted in plain text.
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Plain text is easier to produce, lowering the friction for people to contribute, and it's also cheaper to store and transmit, lowering the cost of bandwidth.
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By the numbers: 20,000 employees could search the database and between 200 million and 600 million users had their passwords stored in plain text, per Krebs.
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Hypertext is the basic idea of having plain text with embedded links you can click on; the Transfer Protocol is a standard way of communicating it.
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From there, you can fill the equivalent of about one printed 8.5 x 11-inch page with any combination of plain text, ASCII characters, or emojis.
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Facebook (FB) confirmed it stored up to 600 million user account passwords without encryption and viewable as plain text to tens of thousands of company employee.
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Without in-transit encryption, which Google provides by default, emails could potentially be read by attackers because their body and data are sent in plain text.
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The company estimates that hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users and tens of millions of "other" Facebook users had their passwords stored in plain text.
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Our brief argues that interpreting Title VII's plain text in accordance with conservative textualist principles makes it clear that the law bans discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q. workers.
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They're presented in plain text inside Minecraft's craftable books — not exactly the easiest way to take in these important essays and reports, but better than nothing.
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A BuzzFeed investigation in 2017 found that many of Saks Fifth Avenue's customer records (not including payment info) were stored in plain text on publicly accessible servers.
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According to the plain text of the 1972 joint resolution, the time limit is a limit on ratification, not a sunset provision on the joint resolution itself.
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My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.
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In May 2018, Twitter advised its users, all 330 million of them, to change their passwords after a bug was discovered that exposed them in plain text.
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And though Google couldn't find evidence that anybody used this access maliciously, it's not entirely clear who would have had access to these plain text files either.
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But as Krebs on Security first reported, various errors seem to have caused Facebook's systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012.
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It's obvious why login details, credit card information, and the like is better encrypted rather than sent in plain text—it makes it much harder to steal.
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The breach shows customer data available in plain text and appears to include records for any customer who signed up to order food via Panera's website, panerabread.com.
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With privileged access, Android malware—which is not uncommon even on the policed Google Play store—can read other applications' data, including credentials stored in plain text.
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New breach: The "Collection #1" credential stuffing list began broadly circulating last week and contains 772,904,991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords).
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Today, the trips you talk about or flights you track with Alexa are saved (but only as plain text, not hyperlinks) on cards in the Alexa app.
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Encrypting user passwords and regularly scanning to see whether any passwords are being kept in vulnerable, plain-text format (as was discovered in March of this year).
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The announcement states that usernames and passwords to the service have been compromised, although it does not say whether the passwords were in plain text or hashed.
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Decades from now when your preferred note-taking app or word processing program has been forgotten, you'll probably still be able to open those plain text files.
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"Wouldn't it be a lot easier if we just followed the plain text of the statute?" he asked Brian H. Fletcher, a lawyer for the federal government.
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Now Trump has attempted collusion in the plain text of a call record released by his own White House, and the case for impeachment is markedly stronger.
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Whereas passwords are usually stored in hashed or encrypted form, answers to security questions are often stored — and therefore stolen — in plain text, as users entered them.
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The files were encrypted with a keystream, which is a random series of characters that is included with the actual plain text message to obfuscate its meaning.
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"Governor McAuliffe's executive order defies the plain text of the Constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia history," Howell said.
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A third-party app could be used to steal credentials from the keychain, and the password hint for encrypted Apple File Systems volumes revealed passwords in plain text.
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On the same day as its launch in September, a security researcher reported that hackers could access all of the passwords in the Keychain utility in plain text.
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Videos often contain information that came from user-contributed annotations, Lehman said, and the format is more popular than the plain-text notes on which Genius was founded.
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But due to an error with the system, apparently passwords were being saved in plain text to an internal log, instead of masking them with the hashing process.
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This could expose sensitive information such as passwords, messages, emails, and files if they are transmitted in plain text without an additional layer of encryption such as HTTPS.
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The three dissenting justices on the Wisconsin court said the ruling "subverts the plain text" of the constitution, asserting that the December session was not provided by statute.
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Twitter has expanded its animated GIF size limit from 5MB to 15MB, opening up all kinds of new possibilities for situations when plain text just doesn't cut it.
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The app only showed me plain text when I dealt with connection errors, but others are seeing their error text enhanced with familiar faces from the Disney catalog.
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Displayed in easily readable plain text, users' home and email addresses, birthdates, ethnicities, children's age ranges and genders were included in the leak, Forbes said, among other information.
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Citing a Facebook insider, Mr. Krebs said access records revealed that 2,000 engineers or developers had made nine million queries for data that included plain-text user passwords.
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Gorsuch has adopted the Scalia approach of looking to the Constitution as it was understood in the 18th century and adhering to the plain text of a federal law.
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"Mind you, someone could actually have an exceptionally good password but if the website stored it in plain text then leaked it, that password has still been 'burned'."[TechCrunch]
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In a blog post today, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text.
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LeakBase, as well as the hacker known as w0rm, also sent Motherboard another file which it claimed was a list of Jabbim usernames and plain text passwords from 2016.
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The second contained a backup by the apparently defunct Facebook app "At the Pool," which, though much smaller, included more sensitive information, including plain text passwords for 22,000 users.
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Twitter advised that all users change their passwords Thursday after the social media site discovered it had stored them in a log in plain text rather than encrypted form.
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I sort of skimmed through the script, which was kind of hard to respond to when it's just plain text and you don't know much else about the play.
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Update, 7:55am: NPR appears to be giving Europeans a choice of either still being tracked with cookies and other tracking technologies, or just viewing NPR online in plain text.
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Voice and other forms of physical authentication are safer and more secure than plain text -- an attacker can't steal somebody's voice like a password written on a piece of paper.
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Facebook stored passwords for hundreds of millions of users in plain text, exposing them for years to anyone who had internal access to the files, according to Krebs on Security.
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What you choose to back up is obviously up to you, but Drive works particularly well with documents, allowing real-time collaboration and editing in plain text, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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The security publication Krebs on Security first reported that Facebook had stored personal passwords of users on unencrypted company servers in plain text, making them readable to thousands of employees.
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To send a message, incarcerated people stand in line for one of several kiosks dedicated to e-messaging and use a rudimentary form of plain text to compose their messages.
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If you're unsure if your pared-back layout might be misunderstood by ATS, Augustine recommends copying the entire resume, formatting and all, and pasting it into a plain text document.
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Just last month, Facebook seemingly tried to bury news that it had stored tens of millions of user passwords in plain text format, which thousands of Facebook employees could see.
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The hotel operator also said that some 25.55 million passport numbers were stolen in the attack on the Starwood Hotels reservation system, 5.25 million of which were stored in plain text.
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Facebook's troubles have continued into 2019, with the company recently admitting it didn't properly encrypt hundreds of millions of user passwords, which were stored as plain text on an internal platform.
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According to UpGuard, the list of plain text passwords was particularly problematic, given it provided root admin access to the ISP's firewalls, core routers and switches, servers, and wireless access points.
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While the app can display formatting in messages you receive, you can compose messages on your device only in plain text — which means no bold, italic, underline or other typographical styling.
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Uh: Sensitive personal information relating to hundreds of millions of Americans was not encrypted, but instead was stored in plain text, making it easy for unauthorized users to read and misuse.
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By simulating an attack that gains permissions by running a kernel exploit, our research team was able to uncover and read Secret Chats written in plain-text in the process memory.
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" Ryan went on to say, "As a conservative, I'm a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution and I think in this case the 14th Amendment is pretty clear.
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A security researcher told The Information that this would only be possible if Instagram stores its passwords in plain text, which could be a larger and concerning security issue for the company.
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The best way to maintain the fairness and integrity of the electoral process and avoid even the appearance of partisanship is through even-handed compliance with the plain text of the law.
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During his confirmation hearings, Justice Gorsuch talked a lot about his respect for the rule of law, and the importance of sticking to the plain text of the Constitution and of statutes.
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Others relish the challenge of password cracking—a breach appears with a weak hashing algorithm and it's game on to see who can resolve the greatest proportion of them back to plain text.
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Facebook stored up to 600 million user account passwords without encryption and viewable as plain text to tens of thousands of company employees, according to a report Thursday by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.
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The counterargument from LGBTQ advocates and several lower courts, however, is that the intent of lawmakers does not limit a law's reach, but rather its meaning is defined by the statute's plain text.
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Ryan told the Lexington, Kentucky, radio station, "As a conservative, I'm a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution, and I think in this case the 14th Amendment is pretty clear."
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For years, Facebook has been storing hundreds of millions of users' passwords exposed in plain text in an internal database that is searchable by tens of thousands employees, Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity reports.
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The guidance clarifies that the UDI is required in two formats: a plain-text version and an automated version that can be added to a patient's electronic health record or other computer system.
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Lots of references to sizes of ammo racks, queries about if you've ever "been …… INSIDE a tank" and jabs about wanting you to help "fill her up" bulk out the otherwise plain text.
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What we know: The inquiry comes weeks after Facebook said in a blog post that hundreds of millions of users' passwords had been stored in unprotected plain text accessible by the company's employees.
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Add to that the superior aesthetics and visual appeal of a UI versus plain text (as with chatbots) and the case for a manual keyboard-driven input format becomes even harder to defend.
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"We are very pleased that Judge Orrick agreed with us that Juul's arbitration clause is unenforceable because it was hidden in a hyperlink that was 'wholly indistinguishable' from plain text," Nafisi's email said.
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Despite these apps using end-to-end encryption for the transfer of messages, if an end device was compromised by this attack, then an attacker could access previously encrypted messages in plain text.
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The company announced it mishandled sensitive passwords for hundreds of millions of its users and stored them in plain text (meaning: easily readable) format in a database that could be accessed by employees.
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In May 2014 an intruder was able to access consumers' personal information in plain text in Uber's Amazon S3 Datastore — using an access key that one of its engineers had publicly posted to GitHub.
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They claimed that the governor's assertion of executive authority "defies the plain text of the constitution, flouts the separation of powers, and has no precedent in the annals of Virginia," according to the ruling.
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Anyone who upgrades their Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Amazon Fire HD, or Amazon Fire TV Stick to Fire OS 5 will have local information left vulnerable to cyber attacks and stored in plain text.
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On Monday, Deutsche Bahn technicians were still working to remove the malware, and some vending machine screens were displaying plain text advising travelers to get information elsewhere — on the railway's website or smartphone app.
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Many Republicans allege that the "insurance policy" line is evidence of some kind of plot against Trump on the part of the FBI, though the plain text of the message suggests nothing of the kind.
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Servers.Photo: Getty ImagesCode repository GitHub warned "a select number of users" on Tuesday that due to a flaw in its password reset system, the company had stored their passwords in plain text on internal logs.
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But none of this has anything to do with the nonsense being peddled by Republicans like Hawley and Cruz,who seem intent on getting both the legislative intent and plain text of 22016 exactly backwards.
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The original post revealed Facebook stored passwords for hundreds of millions of its Facebook users and "tens of thousands" of Instagram users as plain text in a database that could be accessed by its staff.
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Facebook (FB) said in March that it failed to properly mask the passwords for a huge number of users, storing them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed by its staff.
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The cards in the Apple Watch's notification tray, which are accessible by pulling down from the top of the screen, have a layered look that feels richer and more refined than Fitbit's plain-text notifications.
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On Thursday, Facebook (FB) said it didn't properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users and stored them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed by its staff.
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CNET reported that not only were multiple WeWork outposts in California and New York using the same wifi password for different locations, the company also displays the network password in plain text on its app.
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Some sites are electing to only run non-targeted ads in the EU, and publishers like NPR are offering a plain text version of their site to those who don't agree to their terms of service.
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It's a quick and comforting way to let you know that your data is being securely encrypted, rather than sent out into the void in plain text, which is what happens when using old-fashioned HTTP.
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Although Google didn't say so explicitly, it seems like it wants to also make sure people don't lump this bug in the same category as other plain text password problems where those passwords have leaked out.
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Many of those who signed up in the past month include senior executives at major tech companies but don't realize that their email address — which identifies them — could be sitting plain text in an exposed database.
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On Thursday, Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it had opened an investigation into Facebook after the company told it that hundreds of millions of user passwords were stored in plain-text format on its internal servers.
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When a cybersecurity researcher was trying to reset his Virgin Media password earlier this year, he found that Virgin sent his password in plain text via email — a startlingly unsecure way to communicate passwords without encryption.
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A number of high-profile breaches or embarrassing vulnerabilities in recent years have involved customer or user passwords stored in plain text on unsecured servers, including computer systems for Panera Bread, T-Mobile, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
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But still: The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 3603 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than 20,000 Facebook employees.
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The source said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed and for how long, but so far the inquiry has uncovered archives with plain text user passwords in them dating back to 2012.
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Just last month, it emerged that the platform had stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text, and in the past it's also used phone numbers provided for security verification purposes to target users with ads.
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First, Save to Google lacks a major feature of these read-it-later extensions, which strip away CSS and HTML formatting to present clean, plain-text articles that users can access on websites like Pocket and Readability.
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This argument flies in the face of the plain text, structure and purpose of the law — the whole point of which is to remove the intelligence community's political leadership from having a say over whistle-blower complaints.
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On Thursday, Facebook admitted that it hadn't properly masked the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users but had stored them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed unencrypted by its staff.
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The Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department acknowledged Neal's authority and that the plain text of the tax code does not require the committee to provide any purpose in support of its request for tax information.
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Gorsuch told a lawyer for the LGBTQ side at one point "assume for a moment I'm with you on the textual evidence, it's close, OK?" suggesting he thought they could win on the plain text of the law.
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This excellent Facebook post from Benjamin Blaine underscores just how batty the whole situation is: On the off chance that doesn't clear things up, here's the plain-text explanation (be sure to also check out Zack Beauchamp's explainer).
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Although companies are meant to scramble your password whenever you enter it — known as hashing — not all use strong or modern algorithms, making it easy for hackers to reverse that hashing and read your password in plain text.
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Last week, T-Mobile Austria customers got some terrible security news as a string of unplanned customer service tweets revealed that the company was storing passwords in plain text, which is a major violation of basic cybersecurity practices.
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The company claimed that the passwords that were stolen "cannot be easily converted back to plain text," but Motherboard and security experts didn't have issues converting into original passwords a sample of the data provided by the hacker.
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Here's just some of the stuff you can do on the web but not your phone: Drag emails between categories, email groups of contacts, quickly switch between plain text and rich text, and send money with a message.
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It lets you pinch to zoom and shrink documents; it can import research documents and media files; and it has many of the organizational and document output options (Word, Final Draft, Plain Text and PDF) the desktop version offers.
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Users on a politics-focused section of the fringe 4chan message board repeatedly posted the phone number for the Iowa Democratic Party, which was found by a simple Google search, both as screenshots and in plain text, alongside instructions.
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In December, a Portuguese hospital was fined €400,000 after its staff used bogus accounts to access patient records, while a German social media and chat service was fined €20,000 in November for storing social media passwords in plain text.
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The files, which were sensitive but unclassified, included work for the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; the digital security credentials of a Booz Allen senior engineer; and other credentials stored in plain text, potentially granting access to other servers.
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Researchers from security firm Rapid7 analyzed the Android applications that people use to control their Wink Hub 2 and Insteon Hub devices and found that both of them store sensitive access credentials in plain text in their configuration files.
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A cybersecurity researcher found that Elsevier, which publishes scientific and medical journals, had stored people's usernames and passwords in plain text on an unprotected server on its website, meaning anyone who found the page could instantly access the passwords.
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In a plain-text world, the written content of your message should come through, but decorative borders, photos and type styling will most likely get reduced to file attachments and not be assembled within the message body as designed.
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This weekend, when word got out that the ESA had posted on the E3 website a plain-text Excel spreadsheet with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of journalists who registered for E3 last year, I wasn't actually surprised.
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The exception to this rule seems to be the National Science Foundation's website, which replaced its normal landing page with a bunch of plain text explaining that its website will be "unavailable until further notice" thanks to the government shutdown.
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The policy came under scrutiny on Sunday when the cybersecurity-focused Twitter account e-sushi pointed out how potentially dangerous it could be, especially given another recent scandal in which it turned out the site was storing passwords in plain text.
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"Under the last administration, liberals were so used to the president twisting the rules to suit the Left's agenda that it's news when Donald Trump decides to operate within the plain text of law," Perkins at the Family Research Council wrote.
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Java is completely back-end; by the end of my AP course, we had learned how to create a Celsius to Fahrenheit converter, set up a rock/paper/scissors game (all in plain text, sadly) and create a tip calculator.
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But there are still unanswered questions as Facebook said they used industry standard encryption technology (known as hashing and salting), but how all these passwords ended up sitting around in plain text for as long as seven years remains unknown.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union, Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, on Thursday said it had launched an inquiry into whether the company violated EU data rules by saving user passwords in plain text format on internal servers.
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In delivering the decision, which split the justices along their ideological lines, Justice Samuel Alito said the 9th Circuit's interpretation conflicts with the plain text and structure of the law Congress created for immigrants who have committed certain dangerous crimes.
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What he found was a major privacy issue where call histories, contacts, text messages, email messages, and even directory listings from mobile phones that had been synchronized with the car, were being stored persistently on the infotainment unit in plain text.
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The plain text of Arizona's vacancy law, however, makes no reference to filing deadlines, and as the issue has never arisen in the past, it's not entirely clear what would happen if the seat became vacant in July or August.
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Mr. Krebs said an audit by Facebook had found that hundreds of millions of user passwords dating to 2012 were stored in a format known as plain text, which makes the passwords readable to more than 20,000 of the company's employees.
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You can see the real link under the "Verify my email" button in a few ways, like viewing the message in plain text (instead of the HTML commonly used to display links and graphics in email) in your desktop mail program.
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The law is somewhat ambiguous as to how to precisely define "appropriate levels of security," but it is likely the commission would consider plain text passwords that are stored internally and accessible to large numbers of employees as struggling to meet those standards.
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DUBLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union, Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, on Thursday said it had launched an inquiry into whether the company violated EU data rules by saving user passwords in plain text format on internal servers.
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What's more, Krebs reported that the admin could see the site user names in plain text, and while they didn't expose the passwords directly, it didn't take a monumental effort to expose them by right clicking and looking at the site source code.
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"Wouldn't it be a lot easier if we just followed the plain text of the statute?" asked Gorsuch, who has been described by supporters and opponents as a "textualist" who believes courts should carefully follow the wordings of the laws under review.
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Among all of these vulnerable applications, the leaked data includes: 2.6 million user IDs and passwords in plain text, 25 million stored GPS location records, 50 thousand in-app financial transaction records, and more than 4.5 million social media platform user tokens.
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Early Web 1.0 was a weird place, two steps beyond bulletin boards and plain text young internet and somewhere before social media everywhereism: it was Newgrounds and Badger Badger Mushroom and MyBB and that weird website your dad made about the dog.
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It should actually follow the plain text of the Affordable Care Act that specifically allows states to combine Medicaid and innovation waivers so that they can find more effective ways for citizens to get better health care coverage as they leave Medicaid.
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The leaders of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, Michael Turzai and Joseph Scarnati, respectively, said under the plain text of the U.S. Constitution the General Assembly's 2011 plan is the plan that should govern Pennsylvania's congressional elections as a matter of federal law.
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Said bucket, named "pinapp2," contained the "keys to the kingdom," according to the security firm, including internal network diagramming, network hardware configuration photos, details and inventory lists—as well as lists of plain text passwords and AWS secret keys for Pocket iNet employees.
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Even though computers are really good at doing math, don't have much difficulty reading plain text, and are getting increasingly good at picking out objects in moving and still photos, when these images are slightly distorted it throws them through a loop.
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Early on, it was possible for your company administrator for G Suite apps to set user passwords manually — say, before a new employee came on board — and if they did, the admin console would store those passwords in plain text instead of hashing them.
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After KrebsOnSecurity first reported that the company had been storing hundreds of millions of users' passwords in plain text since as far back as 2012, Facebook VP of engineering Pedro Canahuati rushed to publish a blog post noting the error was discovered in January.
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Although the attack vector used in both attacks is essentially the same: In 2014 an intruder gained access to an Amazon S3 Datastore Uber was using (and storing data in plain text) after one of its engineers had publicly posted the key to GitHub.
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DoH is a new standard that encrypts a part of your internet traffic that's typically sent over an unencrypted plain text connection, and which could allow others to see what websites you're visiting, even when your communication with the website itself is encrypted using HTTPS.
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"A presidential power to create permanent national monuments flies in the face of the plain text of federal law, the conventional relationship between presidents and Congress and historical understandings of executive power," conservative attorneys Todd Gaziano and John Yoo wrote in Los Angeles Times.
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After working out some technical kinks, Wuyts was able to convert the DNA sequence into plain text, revealing the private key and unlocking the bitcoin (as well as some artefacts, including a drawing of James Joyce and the logo for the European Bioinformatics Institute).
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"The Data Protection Commission (DPC) was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords, relating to users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram, were stored by Facebook in plain text format in its internal servers," the DPC said in a statement.
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The tweet is now stored in the form of a cryptographic hash—a way of encoding plain text data into a seemingly random string of numbers and letters—and will never be able to be removed from the blockchain, even if the tweet is deleted from Twitter.
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And while Hunt has always resisted calls to make breached plain text passwords searchable (for obvious security and privacy reasons), the size of modern data breaches — which can almost routinely involve multi-millions of users these days — has demonstrably ramped up pressure on Have I Been Pwned?
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"As far as we are aware, no facility has ever entered into a contract modification pursuant to the 2015 memo, which means that by the plain text of this language ICE is now legally obligated to immediately release every transgender person in detention," Quigley wrote to colleagues.
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The Android application used to control the Insteon Hub was also found to store credentials in plain text, namely the username and password for the user's online account, as well as the username and password that can be used to control the hub directly over the local area network.
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Just this week, three new investigations into the company's practices over data privacy came to light, including an investigation in Europe by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (Facebook's global headquarters is in Ireland) over how Facebook was storing some users of Instagram and What passwords in plain text internally.
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In case of private tokens and custom bot tokens, they're a string of characters using these formats: xoxp-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX xoxb-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXX Simply searching for the four letter prefixes on GitHub will net you a lot of tokens in plain text, which we were able to replicate.
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Because the smartwatch wasn't using any encryption to send data from the app to the server, Yalon said he was able to see his registered email address and password sent in plain text, as well as data about how he was using the watch, like how many steps he was taking.
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Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data While Apple might so far have fallen just shy of calling for a full copypaste of GDPR-level data protections into US law, there's perhaps an element of strategic caution at play that's moderating its plain-text political messaging.
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While WhatsApp makes use of the respected Signal Protocol to protect users' comms via end-to-end encryption, the best encryption in the world can't offer any protection if a person gains possession of your unlocked device, as they can just open the app and read everything in plain text.
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A hacker has gained access to administrative functions on the porn website Team Skeet and is advertising a database supposedly containing email addresses, plain text passwords, names, and physical and IP addresses for over 237,000 users of the site, as well as the broader porn network, Paper Street Media (PSM).
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If you're like me and prefer to write notes or reminders by hand instead of typing them into a computer, being able to convert an entire meeting's worth of handwritten info into plain text that can be exported to a Word doc, PDF or email is a massive time saver.
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While the plain text of Dodd-Frank defines a "whistleblower" as any individual who provides "information relating to a violation of the securities laws to the commission, in a manner established, by rule or regulation, by the commission," the SEC's regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank provision contain two discrete whistleblower definitions.
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Not all such apps start with text — Snapchat famously focused on photos from the outset — but almost all of these social apps eventually seem to make their way through this series of increasingly rich media, from plain text (usually eventually including URLs) to photos to video, and now to live video.
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Panera Bread left the information of up to 37 million customers who signed up for delivery and other services including "names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer's credit card number" in plain text format accessible via its web site, per a report on Monday from KrebsOnSecurity.
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Wire also backed up its end-to-end encryption claims by asking researchers to conduct an external audit of its cryptography, but users should be aware that a trade-off for using the app on other devices means that the app keeps a record of everyone you've ever contacted in plain text.
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The three judges on the panel -- all appointees of former President Bill Clinton -- peppered the parties with questions in an hour-long televised hearing Monday, appearing eager to flesh out exactly when the court might be allowed to look behind the plain text of the President's executive order find a discriminatory purpose.
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In plain text, Disney+ is available on: Amazon Fire TV Android TV Apple TV Chromecast LG TVs Roku devices Samsung TVs Amazon, Android, and Apple tablets PlayStation 4 Xbox One Web browsers If you have any of those devices (and I don't know how you could read this if you don't), congratulations!
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" Ryan noted that such an executive order would not be consistent with the 14th Amendment, saying, "You know, as a conservative, I'm a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution, and I think in this case the 14th Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.
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Plain text messaging: 235-240 years-old: 59% 35+ years-old: 73% Visual messaging: 18-35 years-old: 52% 353+ years-old: 30% They're also more likely to communicate in groups: 1:1 messaging: 18-35 years-old: 83% 35+ years-old: 70% Group messaging: 18-35 years-old: 52% 35+ years-old: 40%
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In delivering his first opinion of the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch relied on the plain text of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in finding that Santander Consumer USA does not qualify as a debt collector because it purchased the $3.5 billion portfolio of auto loan debts it had been hired by CitiFinancial to collect.
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But Krebs added it wasn't until Monday that they took any action on what was initially believed to be seven million exposed records:Fast forward to early this afternoon — exactly eight months to the day after Houlihan first reported the problem — and data shared by Houlihan indicated the site was still leaking customer records in plain text.
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Alternatively, get Gmail set up for IMAP access through the Settings pane on the web, then use your desktop client to sync all the emails you want straight to your computer—in either case, you can use whatever export options your email program has to get your messages into another format (like plain text) if you need to.
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For example, the $40 iExplorer program, for the Windows and Mac operating systems, can grab a specific text conversation from the iTunes backup file and save it in a more common format like a plain-text file (which can be opened and saved in Microsoft Word), a comma-separated values file or as a PDF file.
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These libertarian legal theorists, led by the Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett, subscribed to the judicial philosophies of originalism and textualism, which hold that judges should interpret the Constitution according to the meaning of its plain text, instead of its intent or purpose, and, more important, should not hesitate to overturn any law that deviates from that text.
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And the Irish DPC, the lead privacy regulator for Facebook's European business, has a very long list of open probes against Facebook and Facebook-owned platforms — adding yet another today, into a security facepalm that Facebook disclosed last month, admitting it had managed to store hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text format on its internal servers without apparently noticing until January.
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Exaggerated, morally panicked versions of youth internet styles have appeared everywhere from media hyperbole about emoji in the 2010s (most notably, Seattle's Q13 local FOX News affiliate claiming hilariously false things about the fox and hibiscus emoji) to media hyperbole about internet acronyms and plain-text emoticons in the 2000s—so much a media staple of the time that an academic paper was written analyzing 101 of them.
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While it is true that administrative agencies must subject their actions to "public notice and comment" under the Administrative Procedure Act, regulatory agencies should not promulgate rules and regulations based upon the vox populi; rather, these agencies are charged with dispassionately implementing their respective enabling statutes as delineated by Congress based upon the plain text of the statute, the case law interpreting that statute, the economics, and the substantive record before them.
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Every time you connect to a public Wi-Fi, it's super easy … let's say you are sitting at the airport and you're connecting to the San Francisco airport Wi-Fi, it's super easy for a hacker to pretend that he or she is the San Francisco airport Wi-Fi and you are actually connecting through that hacker to the San Francisco airport Wi-Fi, and they are seeing in plain text everything you're doing, your passwords, your emails.
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Nevertheless, the FOMB action and intervention in violation of the PROMESA was to decrease the current local budget to provide the special education and related services required by the IDEA, and to intervene in the proposed law that incorporated IDEA's plain text in order to advance compliance with the federal legislation and finally end a 38 years class action litigation in local courts for the Puerto Rico's Department of Education failure to provide the services required by the federal legislation.
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