passwords

Increasingly lengthy and complex log-in processes and web forms are driving consumers away from websites, according to Ping Identity. The study revealed that an overwhelming …

Phishers have lately shown a penchant for using the “secure / confidential document / message” lure for making users share their login credentials. The latest …

North American players of the popular League of Legends online game are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as a breach of Riot Games’ servers …

Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …

A very thorough phishing campaign is targeting customers of JPMorgan Chase Bank who use their mobile phones to do their online banking, warn Trend Micro researchers. The …

When choosing to import his Safari bookmarks and settings into Google’s Chrome browser, software developer Elliot Kember discovered that although it seemed like he could …

A federal indictment made public in New Jersey charges five men with conspiring in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole …

Last Friday, the British Kitchenware store, Lakeland, suffered a major data breach that involved two encrypted databases. To make things worse, the company doesn’t know …

The Ubuntu Forums are still down following this weekend’s breach claimed by a hacker that goes by the online handle “Sputn1k_”, and there is no news on when …

Players of the popular Combat Arms first-person shooter are being targeted by online crooks via the in-game chat system, warns Chris Boyd. They crooks offer what is supposedly …

Ubuntuforums.org, the home of a variety of support forums dedicated to users of this popular Linux distribution, has been hacked over the weekend and defaced to show an image …

The recent revelations on how Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and others are compelled by the US government to give its agencies access to user data have …