passwords
Consumers think passwords are of no value to criminals
21 percent of respondents to a Kaspersky survey assume their passwords are of no value to criminals. Many often take the easy way out when creating and storing passwords. For …
Attackers can easily crack Belkin routers’ WPS PINs
A considerable number of routers manufactured by US-based Belkin use a flawed method for creating PINs for Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), making them easily discoverable by …
TV5Monde makes new security blunders in wake of hack
Last week’s hack attack against TV5Monde resulted in the compromise of its website, social media accounts, the outage of its email server, and a temporary program …
How to keep your Facebook account secure
When last November Facebook asked users to comment the proposed changes to the social network’s terms of use, data policy, and cookies policy, it also introduced Privacy …
Apple-themed “Your account has been limited” phishing emails doing rounds
Apple users are once again targeted with phishing emails, warns Bitdefender, and the latest variant of the scheme is impersonating Apple Support claiming that their account …
Behavioral biometrics: The password you can’t forget
This year’s Mobile World Congress featured more biometrics technology than ever before, with the launch of Google’s Android Pay and Samsung Pay both unveiling …
Twitch forces users to reset password in wake of breach
Twitch, the popular Amazon-owned game streaming service, has apparently suffered a breach that might have resulted in the compromise of users’ personal information and …
Many admit that passwords are their only IT security measure
New research from SecureAuth shows that despite much debate, the password isn’t dead yet as two in five IT decision makers (ITDMs) admit that passwords are their only IT …
Preventing fraud through enterprise password management
The past few years the world has seen various incidents where students have fraudulently modified their school grades, progress reports and attendance records. Recently, there …
Flaw in GoPro update mechanism reveals users’ Wi-Fi passwords
A vulnerability in the update mechanism for the wireless networks operated by GoPro cameras has allowed a security researcher to easily harvest over a 1,000 login credentials …
Windows 10 will offer password-free authentication
The upcoming Windows 10 will offer more authentication options instead of just passwords, Dustin Ingalls, Group Program Manager for Windows Security & Identity, has …
Researcher publishes 10 million usernames and passwords to aid future research
Independent IT security analyst Mark Burnett has released a cleaned up cache of 10 million username and password combinations, in order to give researchers a data set that can …