Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Hackers appear to have posted account info for 4.6 million users of quickie social-sharing app Snapchat, making usernames and at least partial phone numbers available for download.
The data were posted to the website SnapchatDB.info. By late Wednesday morning, that site had been suspended.
The hack was seemingly intended to urge Snapchat to ...
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
A very useful site was just created to check if any of your online accounts have been compromised (yet):
http://www.haveibeenpwned.com/
It’s trustworthy…I know the guy who runs it and it will be updated with all the major data breaches going forward.
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
Symantec Security Response has discovered many Instagram users have willingly shared their usernames and passwords to a bot-like app in order to increase likes and followers.
The application known as InstLike was available for iOS and Android devices. It could be found in both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. ...
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Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying on long passcodes and phrases to protect their website accounts and other online assets.
Until now, ocl-Hashcat-plus, the Hashcat ...
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Go into the password section in Google Chrome's settings panel and you can see that the popular web browser displays saved passwords in plain text. Many consider this a flaw – but not Google.
Software developer Elliott Kember may not be the first one to realize this, but he learned about ...
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