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While consumers remain complacent, hackers refine their skills

A new Norton Cyber Security Insights Report found that consumers who were victims of cybercrime within the past year often continued their unsafe behavior. For example, while …

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Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack

A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. WindTalker …

1Password Windows
Released: 1Password Teams for Windows

AgileBits, the company behind popular password manager 1Password, has finally released 1Password Teams for Windows (6.0). 1Password Teams works just like the individual …

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Deception mechanisms for detecting sophisticated attacks

Private information stored in document files is the most popular target for attacks coming from professional hackers, according to TopSpin Security. File traps, including …

Yahoo
Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim

The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat …

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The psychological reasons behind risky password practices

Despite high-profile, large-scale data breaches dominating the news cycle – and repeated recommendations from experts to use strong passwords – consumers have yet …

MoDaCo
880,000 users exposed in MoDaCo data breach

Subscribers of UK-based MoDaCo, a forum specialising in smartphone news and reviews, have been unpleasantly surprised by notifications that the site and their account have …

ClixSense
6.6 million ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack

If you’ve ever registered with ClixSense – and millions have – you can consider all your personal information shared with the service compromised. The …

Brazzers
Nearly 800,000 Brazzers users’ credentials exposed

Account login credentials of nearly 800,000 Brazzers porn site users have been stolen in 2012, but the breach has only now come to light, after the data dump was obtained by …

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Rambler.ru hack: Passwords of nearly 100 million users exposed

A new data leak – confirmed to be legitimate by LeakedSource and added to its searchable online database – affects nearly 100 million users of Rambler.ru, one of …

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Can biometrics and the FIDO Alliance save us from password overload?

All the available evidence indicates our password-based security system is broken. The human brain can only remember so much and its memory capacity is being pushed to the …

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Betabot steals passwords, downloads ransomware

The infamous and ever-changing Betabot information-stealing Trojan is back again, and has been observed downloading another well-known threat – the Cerber ransomware. Of …

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