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“123456” is the most widely used password on breached accounts, according to a recent password re-use study c by computer engineering students at Cyprus University. Last month, student Ata Hakçıl analyzed more than 1 billion usern… Continue reading One in Every 142 Passwords is ‘123456’, New Research Shows
On underground criminal marketplaces the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 26 million LiveJournal blogging accounts are being traded, despite LiveJournal’s owners refusing to acknowledge that any security breach has occurred. The fi… Continue reading 26 million LiveJournal users warned that their passwords have been breached
Banking start-up Monzo has sent out emails to half a million customers after its engineers caught a glimpse of the PIN numbers associated with their cards. The British banking service, which serves 2.5 million customers, recently secured a new round of… Continue reading Banking start-up exposes PINs for 500,000 customers on the verge of US launch
HCL domain pages exposed sensitive data – including passwords and project analysis reports – for thousands of employees and customers. Continue reading HCL Exposes Customer, Personnel Info in Wide-Ranging Data Leak
The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users’ credentials. Continue reading Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online
Weak or default passwords are behind 81% of data breaches, and most people employ such a password, despite knowing better. Worse still, Internet users recycle the same password across websites and services, making attackers’ job even easier. But … Continue reading Say goodbye to passwords: WebAuthn specification now an official standard
A rash of security flaws in the Outdoor Tech CHIPS smart headphones, which fit in ski helmets, allow bad actors to collect data like emails, passwords, GPS location – and even listen to conversations in real time. Continue reading Smart Ski Helmet Headphone Flaws Leak Personal, GPS Data
A rash of security flaws in the Outdoor Tech CHIPS smart headphones, which fit in ski helmets, allow bad actors to collect data like emails, passwords, GPS location – and even listen to conversations in real time. Continue reading Smart Ski Helmet Headphone Flaws Leak Personal, GPS Data
Despite an increasingly dangerous threat landscape and heightened global awareness of hacking and data breaches, password hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. 91 percent of people know that password recycling poses huge security risks, yet 59 percent st… Continue reading 59% of people use the same password everywhere, poll finds
In a series of emails to its users, popular code repository website GitHub revealed that some account passwords were inadvertently collected in plaintext by their internal logging systems, prompting an immediate password reset for affected accounts. Gi… Continue reading Unspecified GitHub Bug Internally Exposes Passwords in Plaintext