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Infosec pros are moving beyond traditional passwords
Businesses nationwide are increasing their cybersecurity budgets and exploring alternative authentication techniques to passwords, according to a SecureAuth and Wakefield …
WP Engine breached, forces users to change their passwords
Popular WordPress-specific hosting provider WP Engine has apparently suffered a data breach, and is forcing their customers to change their passwords.“We are writing …
Flaws in industrial gas detectors exploitable by low-skilled attackers
Two industrial gas detector product lines manufactured by Honeywell sport two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to retrieve the user’s …
Personal info of 12+ million Dutch mobile phone owners easily accessible to hackers
Sijmen Ruwhof, a freelance IT security consultant and ethical hacker from Utrecht, recently stumbled across what turned out to be an example of how poor security practices of …
Strong passwords don’t matter if employees don’t secure them
The line between personal and professional use of apps and devices continues to blur, and while employees claim to prioritize online security, data fro Ping Identity shows …
Abysmal security practices by toy maker VTech result in massive data breach
Hong Kong-based electronic toy maker VTech has suffered a massive breach. The target was the Learning Lodge app store, from which registered users can download games, music, …
Amazon resets customers’ potentially compromised passwords
Has Amazon suffered a breach? We won’t know for sure until the company offers more information.So far, we known only what users affected by the data theft/leak incident …
Unsafe password policies leave shoppers vulnerable
Dashlane examined password security policies on 25 of the most popular online retailers. They tested 22 criteria, and each criterion was given a +/- point value that enabled a …
Comcast resets passwords for 200,000 users after login credentials go on sale
Over the weekend, someone has been peddling a batch of 590,000 email address/password combinations allegedly belonging to Comcast customers. The price set for the lot was 3.23 …
Four ways organizations can prevent PII from becoming black market public record
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is worth 10 times more than credit card information on the black market, making it imperative to have strong policies and safeguards …
vBulletin, Foxit forums hacked, attacker exploited a zero-day flaw?
On Monday, a vBulletin support manager has announced on the company’s forums that they are forcing a password reset for all of its customers.“Very recently, our …
Open source KeeFarce tool loots encrypted passwords stored in KeePass
Denis Andzakovic, a hacker and researcher with New Zealand-based security consultancy Security-Assessment.com, has released the source code for KeeFarce, a tool that can …