passwords

When Maryland’s Division of Correction instituted a requirement for job applicants and employees undergoing recertification to hand over login credentials of their …

A Siber Systems survey of over 700 adults from the United States, the U.K., Germany and other countries shows a significant disconnect between how individuals perceive online …

Online passwords are a pain, and not just when you have to type them to access your online bank account or shop at your favorite digital emporium. Password pain extends to the …

Cracking encrypted passwords is getting increasingly easier as researchers come up with new ways of harnessing CPU, GPU and cloud power to perform the task. The latest of the …

ManageEngine announced enhancements to Password Manager Pro, which offers protection to data centres by helping establish access controls to IT infrastructure, and seamlessly …

Skype has temporarily disabled its password reset function while it was investigating reports about a vulnerability that has been misused to hijack users’ accounts, but …

Samsung Galaxy S3, currently one of the most popular smartphones on the market, stores passwords in plain text. The culprit is actually Samsung’s S-Memo app, and all the …

Blizzard, the developer of popular online games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo, has been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming that the company engages in …

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 …

Yubico announced the production launch of the YubiKey NEO, a new authentication token that features Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, asymmetric cryptography support …

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 …

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 …