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Is zero-effort computer security a dream?
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Aalto University have found vulnerabilities in a recently proposed user-verification security system for …
Mastercard’s Selfie ID: Playing Russian Roulette with consumer identities?
At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MasterCard announced it will accept selfie photographs and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying …
W3C launches effort to replace passwords
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is launching a new standards effort in web authentication that aims to offer a more secure and flexible alternative to password-based …
Why we need a reality check on passwords
Given all the recent and historical news on data breaches of personal e-mail accounts, social media accounts and even phone account passwords, it is every wonder therefore …
LostPass: A worryingly simple phishing attack aimed at LastPass users
Security researcher (and Praesido CTO) Sean Cassidy has demonstrated at ShmooCon how easy it can be for hackers to steal LastPass users’ email, password, and two-factor …
Compromised credentials a leading concern for most security pros
90% of organizations are worried about compromised credentials, though 60% say they cannot catch these types of attacks today, according to a new survey by Rapid7. 62% of …
Why the legal sector is risking confidential information
The lack of unique logins, manual logoffs and concurrent logins is putting confidential information in the legal sector at risk, new research has revealed. A report by IS …
Cisco kills hardcoded password bug in Wi-Fi access points
Along with fixes for a number of older vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software, the Cisco IOS Software Common Industrial Protocol, and the OpenSSL package …
Google researchers finds critical flaws in Trend Micro AV solution
If you are using Trend Micro’s Maximum Security 10 solution for Windows, you might want to update it to the latest available version as soon as possible. If you …
HTTPS Bicycle attack reveals password length, allows easier brute-forcing
Dutch security researcher Guido Vranken has come up with a new attack that could allow attackers to discover the length of a user’s password – and therefore make …
Linode forces password reset for all users due to suspected breach
New Jersey-based virtual private server provider Linode can’t seem to catch a break. After being repeatedly hit with DDoS attacks from December 24 to early January, the …
LastPass 4.0 features fresh UX, emergency access, sharing center
The latest version of the popular password manager includes a new UX, and a host of new features. LastPass 4.0 is immediately available on all browsers and platforms, …