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It isn’t new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy’s intact – unless you’re dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing. Continue reading Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images
A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports. Continue reading Mixcloud user accounts up for sale on dark web
Old passwords never die… they just become easier to decode. Continue reading Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code
A 39-year-old password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers…. Continue reading UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords. Continue reading 218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled? Continue reading XKCD forums breached
A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users’ passwords. Continue reading Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
Nobody got at the subset of G Suite passwords, Google said, apologizing and saying that it’s working to ensure this is an isolated incident. Continue reading Google stored some passwords in plain text for 14 years
A recent study shows that if you aren’t prepared to ask or pay for security, you probably won’t get it. Continue reading Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”. Continue reading Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords