passwords
Massive Gmail credential leak is not result of a breach
By now, you might have heard that there has been a leak of a nearly 5 million username and password combinations associated with Google accounts. According to an RT report, …
Give up on complex passwords, says Microsoft
The Internet is full of advice on how users should go about choosing strong passwords, and on what schemes web admins should implement to make them do so and what protection …
Namecheap accounts brute-forced by CyberVor gang?
California-based domain registrar and web hosting firm Namecheap has been targeted by hackers, the company’s VP of hosting Matt Russell warned on Monday, and said that …
Reveton ransomware now comes with password stealers
The Reveton screen-locking ransomware is still with us, and it’s evolving. According to Avast researchers, the latest generation of the malware also includes information …
51% of consumers share passwords
Consumers are inadvertently leaving back doors open to attackers as they share log in details and sign up for automatic log on to mobile apps and services, according to new …
Successful strategies to avoid frequent password changes
1.2 billion passwords reportedly stolen by Russian hackers. Before that it was Heartbleed. After a widespread, nonspecific data breach, the conventional wisdom is that people …
The dangers of backdoor passwords
In an increasingly connected world, backdoor passwords have large implications on the Internet of Things, the medical world and industrial control systems. While you might …
Five steps to take to protect your passwords
A report issued this week claimed that a Russian cybercrime group stole 1.2 billion usernames and passwords from 420,000 websites. While some security experts question the …
Cyber gang steals 1.2 billion Web credentials
A Russia-based cyber criminal group has managed to accumulate 1.2 billion unique online login credentials by compromising databases of over hundreds of thousands websites and …
Thousands of Mozilla developers’ emails, passwords exposed
Email addresses and encrypted passwords of tens of thousands of Mozilla developers were accidentally exposed and might have been harvested by malicious individuals, Stormy …
Selectively re-using bad passwords is not a bad idea, researchers say
For all the repeated advice to use different, complex password for each online account, users are still opting for easy-to-guess, short ones and use them repeatedly across …
Critical vulnerabilities in web-based password managers found
A group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, have analyzed five popular web-based password managers and have discovered – and then responsibly …