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Under Armour is getting kudos for disclosing breach within weeks, but concerns remain over an unknown portion of credentials reportedly stored using the weak SHA-1 hashing function. Continue reading Under Armour Reports Massive Breach of 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts
Researchers might have discovered a simple way to get more computer users to opt for strong passwords – tell them how easy their weak choices would be to hack. Continue reading Can emojis save you from a terrible password?
Ancestry.com closes parts of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigates a leaky server that exposed thousands of passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet. Continue reading Leaky RootsWeb Server Exposes Some Ancestry.com User Data
Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, has closed up shop. A source close to the matter says the service was taken down in a law enforcement sting that may be tied to the Dutch police raid of the Hansa dark web market earlier this year. Continue reading Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark
The company plans to trial an add-on that will warn users if they appear in Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? database. Continue reading Involved in a data breach? Firefox to test alerts in the browser
Researcher Troy Hunt is credited for tipping image sharing site Imgur off to a 2014 breach of 1.7 million user accounts. Continue reading Imgur Confirms 2014 Breach of 1.7 Million User Accounts
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Mozilla is joining hands with popular data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned.com
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Threatpost editors Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring discuss the week’s top information security news stories. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for Nov. 3
Researcher Troy Hunt discovers as far as the internet has come in adopting HTTPS, it still has a ways to go. Continue reading Taking HTTPS Denial to an Absurd Level
What does the Disqus data breach tell us about security? Continue reading Learning from the Disqus data breach