Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data. After conducting extensive tests on its networks, the company said it has no evidence of the compromise ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised. We have no indication at this time that any accounts have been accessed without permission. For our users’ protection, we have taken proactive steps to ensure the security of all accounts, including disconnecting all users’ Facebook and Twitter ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
David Sancho, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro, has recently written a short but good post in which he pointed out the reasons why despite their inherent insecurity, passwords are here to stay.
Among the advantages they offer are the fact that they can be used straight away, and ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
For users who are not system administrators, the biggest impact of the Heartbleed vulnerability has been all the passwords that they have had to change. This, together with improvements in alternative authentication methods (like the fingerprint scanners now embedded in flagship smartphones), have caused some rather bold statements about passwords to ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2014
Last week, AOL confirmed that an unknown number of AOL Mail accounts have been hacked. Today, the company urged all its customers to change passwords and security questions, as it determined that information for at least two percent of all its accounts had been compromised. That's an impact of half a million users.
Attackers breached ...
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