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Hundreds Of Millions Of Microsoft Windows Users' Passwords Exposed
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-08-26
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The online passwords of hundreds of millions of Microsoft Windows users are exposed and vulnerable.
This fact will be revealed to the public on September 1 when New York-based KMGI Group releases its new SeePassword software.
Masterfully simple and increasingly useful, SeePassword technology allows forgotten passwords to be easily and quickly retrieved. In the age of cell/fax/phone numbers, virtual/email/physical addresses and routing/account/PIN numbers, passwords regularly get forgotten. SeePassword provides the consumer with a welcomed tool for resolving this problem. Users just drag a magnifying-glass-shaped interface over the asterisks and see the forgotten password hidden behind them.
KMGI plans to distribute the software directly from the website for $19.99. "The public should have access to this technology," says Alex Konanykhin, CEO of KMGI, "not only for the benefits it will afford them, but to better understand how unprotected their private information currently is. Exposure is the first step to solving the problem."
KMGI's exposure of the glaring Windows security hole is an important consumer protection action which raises some poignant questions. Has Microsoft created a false sense of security for consumers? How enormous may the resulting damage be? How do we, as consumers, know our private information is safe? Where do we go from here?
SeePassword is not the first splash made by KMGI. KMGI's innovations have been acclaimed as "The Future of the Internet" (Forbes) and "Cutting-edge" (CNNfn).
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