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OkCupid account hijackings highlight website account management issues

Users of popular dating site OkCupid have been complaining of hackers taking over their account, locking them out by changing the associated email address and password, and …

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Google’s new Chrome extension flags insecure passwords

As the number of compromised and leaked credentials rises inexorably with each passing day, Google has decided to help users choose safe combinations for all their online …

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How privacy and security concerns affect password practices

Yubico announced the results of the company’s 2019 State of Password and Authentication Security Behaviors Report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, who surveyed 1,761 IT …

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773 million records exposed in massive data breach

Someone has compiled a massive collection of email addresses and plain text passwords, apparently from 2000+ hacked databases, and has made the trove freely available for …

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Worst password offenders of 2018 exposed

Kanye West is the worst password offender of 2018, according to Dashlane. When visiting the White House, the famous rapper was sprotted unlocking his iPhone with the passcode …

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Post-exploitation scanning tool scavenges for useful information

Philip Pieterse, Principal Consultant for Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, has demonstrated at Black Hat Arsenal Europe 2018 a new tool for penetration testers called Scavenger. …

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Review: Specops Password Policy

All who work in the information security industry agree that passwords are one of the worst security nightmares of the modern information security age. Having weak passwords …

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GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing

Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or …

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The risk to OT networks is real, and it’s dangerous for business leaders to ignore

Data from the new CyberX CyberX Global ICS & IIoT Risk Report shows major security gaps remain in key areas such as plain-text passwords, direct connections to the …

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Stringent password rules lower risk of personal data breaches

The all-too-common practice of using the same email address/password combination to log into multiple websites can be damaging, especially for employers with many users and …

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Privileged account practices are poor, and IT security teams know it

One Identity released new global research that uncovers a widespread inability to implement basic best practices across identity and access management (IAM) and privileged …

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New IoT legislation bans shared default passwords

In an attempt to make it harder for bots to take over the myriad of connected devices sold in California, the state legislators have pushed through and California Governor …

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