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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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Yahoo is watching you, whether you like it or not.
Yahoo said this week that the company will stop honoring "Do Not Track" requests made by a user's browser. It will now actively attempt to track your interactions with its site and its content.
"Here at Yahoo, we work hard to provide ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2014
Following in the steps of the OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed, another major flaw has been found in popular open-source security software. This time, the holes have been found in the log-in tools OAuth and OpenID, used by many websites and tech titans including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, among others.
Wang Jing, ...
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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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