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LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials
LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made …
App that revealed most common iPhone passcodes booted from App Store
Following the publication of the statistics concerning the most common iPhone passcodes that application developer Daniel Amitay has shared on Tuesday, Apple’s …
10 most common iPhone passcodes
The problem of poor passwords is not confined to computer use, and the fact was discovered by an app developer who has added code to capture user passcodes to one of its …
LulzSec warns NHS about compromised passwords
As a reaction to the “bucket list” of a girl battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma going viral on the Internet and her call to people to donate bone marrow, LulzSec …
Stolen passwords used as bait in malware spam run
At the rate at which databases of various online services are currently being compromised, I expect that emails such as this latest one spotted by Symantec will become a …
Sniff and intercept web session profiles on Android
FaceNiff is an Android app that allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the Wi-Fi that your mobile is connected to. It is possible to hijack sessions only …
Reveal Facebook passwords stored in Web browsers
Logins and passwords to various Web resources are routinely stored or cached in Web browsers to speed up access to protected resources. While it is possible to extract cached …
iPhone hardware encryption investigated
Users of Apple iPhone devices accumulate huge amounts of highly sensitive information stored in their smartphones. Historical geolocation data, viewed Google maps and routes, …
ElcomSoft exposes information in BlackBerry backups
With BlackBerries occupying approximately 40 per cent of the North American market of business communicators and about 20 per cent of the market worldwide, accessing …
LastPass resets passwords for all users following potential breach
LastPass – the well-known and widely used password management and form filling system – has reset the master password for all its users following the discovery of …
24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment accounts stolen
Sony’s ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems revealed that attackers may have stolen personal information from approximately …
New threats require multiple layers of defense
Consumers can expect to receive many more notices – similar to those sent by companies that had used the Epsilon marketing service – in the months ahead from …
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