Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Remember when we discussed how passwords were dead? If you needed more proof that this is true, the bad guys have you covered with a new piece of malware that turned up in the wild.
SecureWorks, the security arm of Dell, has discovered the new piece of malware dubbed "Skeleton Key." ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2014
At 20:00 CT on December 14, an Internet intruder gained access to one of the Ars Web servers and spent the next hour attempting to get from the Web server to a more central machine. At 20:52, the attempt was successful thanks to information gleaned from a poorly located backup file. ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
As many as four out of five internet-connected households in the US could be at risk of attack through their wireless router.
This is among the findings of a study by security specialist Avast which found that more than half of all home routers are poorly protected using default or easily ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
2-Step Verification offers a strong extra layer of protection for Google Accounts. Once enabled, you’re asked for a verification code from your phone in addition to your password, to prove that it’s really you signing in from an unfamiliar device. Hackers usually work from afar, so this second factor makes ...
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