Sunday, July 29th, 2012
A hacking expert has launched a $200 password-cracking tool that makes it easy to decipher Internet traffic sent through a widely used method for securing businesses communications. Moxie Marlinspike, one of the world's top encryption experts, unveiled the tool on Saturday during a presentation at the Def Con hacking conference ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
A hacker group called D33D is claiming to have accessed more than 453,000 logins from Yahoo. The group says it used a union-based SQL injection to access an unidientified Yahoo service to retrieve the data, which it says was unencrypted, and has posted it online. "We hope that ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners have posted a statement saying that the company is investigating the leak and that all users of the service should change their passwords immediately. This is ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
LinkedIn said today that some passwords on a list of allegedly stolen hashed passwords belong to its members, but did not say how its site was compromised.
"We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts," Vicente Silveira, a director at the professional social networking ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
LinkedIn's iOS app is collecting information from calendar entries, including passwords and meeting notes, and transmitting it back to the company's servers without their knowledge, according two mobile security researchers.
The business-networking giant's app for Apple's iPad and iPhone has an opt-in feature that allows users to view their calendar entries ...
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