http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwnedlist-alerts-you-when-youve-been-hacked-for-a-price/10943 By Emil Protalinski Zero Day ZDNet.com March 19, 2012 PwnedList is a website launched nine months ago to help users figure out if their account credentials have been hacked. The service crawls public sites where hackers post stolen data and then indexes all the login credentials it finds. As such, if your company or a website you use was hacked, and PwnedList found it, it can tell you. If you want to check yourself, the service is free. If you want PwnedList to alert you when your account credentials have been stolen, however, you’ll have to pay. Here’s how it works. When you visit PwnedList, you’ll be asked to type in your e-mail address or username. All that PwnedList does is check what you provided against its database of compromised credentials. At the time of writing, it has over 12 million entries in its database, each of which PwnedList also checks for whether a password was also published online. If it has, you can at the very least change your password. PwnedList today announced a “security monitoring service” that charges users for an automatic e-mail alert if their account credentials have been posted online by hackers. The new service is available to both consumers and businesses. Here are the three features PwnedList is emphasizing: [...] ______________________________________________________________________________ CISSP and CEH training with Expanding Security is the fastest, easiest way to grock the relevant data you need now. A free class invite is in every PainPill. Sign up for the free weekly PainPill . It's that easy. http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Tue Mar 20 2012 - 01:07:22 PDT
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