passwords
When will the public sector grasp basic lessons on information security?
Another day, another public sector data breach. Last month the ICO fined Greater Manchester Police £120,000 for the loss of a USB stick. The month before, the Scottish …
YubiKey NEO authentication token released
Yubico announced the production launch of the YubiKey NEO, a new authentication token that features Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, asymmetric cryptography support …
Lock your Mac with QuickLock
QuickLock is a customizable way to lock your Mac. Unlike OSX’s hot corners, QuickLock works with a simple keyboard shortcut or menubar click, and never gets in the way …
Worst passwords of 2012
Just in time for Halloween comes something that might scare anyone who spends a lot of time online: SplashData’s annual list of the most common passwords used on the …
CyanogenMod found logging Android unlock swipe gestures
CyanogenMod, one of the most popular modified Android firmware on the market, has been found containing code that logs the swipe gestures used by the users to unlock their …
Popular Android apps leaking passwords due to poor SSL
A group of researchers from two German universities claim that eight percent of the 13,500 popular, free-of-charge, legitimate Android Android apps they downloaded from Google …
Self-service password management in the cloud
Ilantus released Password Express, a self-service password management solution with security and enterprise integration. It can be deployed in the cloud or on premise to meet …
Tips for protecting your privacy
Every month more than 5,000 people take to Twitter to complain about how their mobile device has been snooped on or their visual privacy invaded. Who can’t resist …
Record privileged sessions in Password Manager Pro
ManageEngine announced the immediate session recording capabilities in its privileged password management software, Password Manager Pro. Now, privileged sessions launched …
RSA helps thwart smash-and-grab credential theft
At RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London, RSA introduced a new technology designed to protect passwords and other credentials and secrets stored in databases from cyber …
Twitter account hijacking exposes easy-to-exploit security flaw
The hijacking of the Twitter account that belongs to user Daniel Dennis Jones and his subsequent investigation into the matter has revealed a Twitter security weakness that …
IEEE password compromise was due to proxy “anomaly”
Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin has revealed last week that he found the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …