Collaborate Disseminate
Every week seems to bring another set of high-profile data leaks, and this time it’s the turn of a service that should be of concern to many in our community. …read more Continue reading Thingiverse Data Leaked — Check Your Passwords
We pity the civil servants involved in the negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, because after tense meetings until almost the Eleventh Hour, they’ve had to cobble together the text of a post-Brexit trade agreement in next-to-no time. In the usual manner of such international agreements both …read more
Continue reading Netscape Communicator And SHA-1 Written Into Brexit Agreement
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Continue reading Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
From 1 September 2020, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with more than a year on the clock. Continue reading Apple chops Safari’s TLS certificate validity down to one year
OpenSSH version 8.2 is out and the big news is that the world’s most popular remote management software now supports authentication using any FIDO (Fast Identity Online) U2F hardware token. Continue reading OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support
New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services. Continue reading Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1
Users of GnuPG, OpenSSL and Git could be in danger from an attack that’s practical for ordinary attackers to carry out. Continue reading Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar
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
Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach. Continue reading Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts 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