passwords

Mac OS X stores user login passwords in system memory even if the computer is locked or put into a sleep mode. The vulnerability is present in all modern versions of Mac OS X, …

Toshiba has confirmed the claims of a hacker that managed to compromise one of its US sites and steal and publish part of a user database on pastebin.com. While the hacker …

Microsoft has decided to introduce two new security features for its web-based Hotmail service, in the hope that this will make the accounts more difficult to hijack and …

The recent attack against Booz Allen led to 90,000 leaked passwords. Unlike previous breaches where the passwords weren’t encrypted, it looks like in this case some care …

When someone mentions biometrics, the first (and sometimes the only) thing that comes to mind to many people are physical characteristics on the basis of which people can be …

Electronic Arts (EA) customers have been receiving emails from the company notifying them that their passwords have been reset “to ensure account security”. Graham …

The Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack on resulting in unauthorized access to files containing user information. The information in those …

Tumblr users have been targeted with an aggressive phishing campaign in the last week or so and are still being lured into entering their login credentials for access to adult …

“We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to …

“Your federal tax payment was rejected”. We imagine that the sight of these words would make even the most security-aware individuals click on anything in sight as …

Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the …

Web-based file hosting service Dropbox has confirmed that a bug introduced by a code push allowed anyone to access any user account by simply typing in a random password for a …