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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
Great news.
If you have already installed the latest update of Google Play Services released earlier today, and your Android device is running Android version 7.0 Nougat or above—Congratulations! Your device is now FIDO2 Certified.
Are you thinking… … Continue reading Android Gets FIDO2 Certification—Now Supports Secure Passwordless Logins
Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used. Continue reading Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one
Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach. Continue reading Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach
With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the Internet.
Thankfully, Google has a solution.
Today, Febr… Continue reading Google’s New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site
This is on you, makers of sites and services that allow users to create passwords like “password.” You can do better! Continue reading Worst passwords list is out, but this time we’re not scolding users
Kanye, please keep your “all zeroes! all the time!” password away from the media. And Nutella? No, “Nutella” is NOT a good password. Continue reading Kanye West tops the charts for year’s worst password pratfall
It’s yet another security stumble following the massive Facebook hack in September, and it likely points to shoddy encryption practices. Continue reading Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs
Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users’ passwords in plain text.
The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered fea… Continue reading Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users’ Passwords In Plaintext
Researchers concluded that passphrase requirements such as a 15-character minimum length deter the majority users from reusing them on other sites. Continue reading Is this the simple solution to password re-use?