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CNET News - Getting past passwords

2014-08-06
another major online security breach and another call for Internet users to change their passwords but even if you follow best practices like having unique passwords for different sites passwords can still be vulnerable creating a password no matter how tricky and complex you think it is is not something you can rely on to stop a very devoted hacker from getting to your data constantly changing your passwords can make it difficult to remember all those combinations of letters numbers and symbols password managers like LastPass and the one password app can help you keep track you log into the password manager and then it auto generates and creates manages all the passwords for you tech companies have begun looking beyond passwords incorporating biometric sensors to unlock devices fingerprint scanners are already on the iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy s5 your phone's camera could soon be used as a retinal scanner there's a lot more things that they can use on your retina to identify you uniquely then even on your fingerprint toronto-based by onnum is developing a device that would use your heartbeat to unlock everything from your car to your computer so you won't have to rely on your memory to remember all those passwords in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News
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