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DirectPass: Password management and login convenience

Trend Micro announced DirectPass, a password management solution. Designed to organize and manage passwords, DirectPass provides consumers with a way to manage their online …

ElcomSoft adds AMD Radeon 7000 Series support

ElcomSoft updated its Phone Password Breaker and Wireless Security Auditor with OpenCL support, adding support for the latest AMD Radeon Graphics and ensuring universal …

Detection and securing of built-in passwords

Lieberman Software announced that the company’s privileged identity management product, Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM), now offers a solution to identify …

Password amnesia and online identity

The use of multiple passwords is posing a security risk to individuals and businesses alike, according to Ping Identity. A new study, which surveyed 2,000 consumers, …

Metasploit identifies IPv6 security risks

Rapid7 announced that the new version of Metasploit 4.2 allows users to fully test whether IPv6 addresses on their network are vulnerable to cyber attacks. This is …

Users don’t bother changing default passwords

Most people working with sensitive information want stricter security policies but rarely bother changing default, automatically generated and assigned passwords. To collect …

Self-selected PINs aren’t that hard to guess

Four-digit banking PINs are usually randomly assigned by banks after the issuing of credit and debit cards, but there are still some out there that let its customers choose …

Open source password manager gets two-factor authentication

Yubico announced a successful implementation of YubiKey two-factor authentication with the free, open source password manager software Password Safe. The joint solution offers …

Twitter turns on HTTPS by default

Twitter has finally taken the plunge and made HTTPS on by default for all users. The option to always use HTTPS was made available to users back in March 2011, but they had to …

Best practices for online banking security

There are two common misconceptions about online banking security which are holding financial institutions back from offering their customers the best services possible. …

Apple iWork passwords cracked

ElcomSoft can now recover passwords protecting Apple iWork documents. This makes Distributed Password Recovery the first tool to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and …

HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users’ Wi-Fi password

A bug in the way some Android-running HTC smartphones handle requests for password allows some applications to send the user’s Wi-Fi network username, password and SSID …

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