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A lack of encryption and easily enumerated IDs open users to a host of creepy attacks.
Posted by Jennifer Pullman, Kurt Thomas, and Elie Bursztein, Spam and Abuse research Back in February, we announced the Password Checkup ...
If only somebody had warned them that the world would roll them like this.
Online password cracker (via rainbow tables, basically). Classroom-usable alternative to installing hashcat or JtR.
For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.
Credential stuffing attacks on IoT
iSCSI hard drives need credentials set or they leak over IP.
Might be a good replacement for one or more of the nerdier readings in Password Week.
Explains password spraying and credential stuffing.
The company was careless with the information of some of its poorest users.
PLAIN TEXT PASSWORDS.
A recent study shows that if you aren’t prepared to ask or pay for security, you probably won’t get it.
The FBI suspects that the hackers used a technique known as "password spraying".
1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass each downplay what researchers say is a flaw in how the utilities manage memory.
What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They're frequently used to try to break into users' other accounts across the internet.
Using hashed and encrypted store, add-on securely checks logins against breach database.
A hacked Nest camera broadcast the fake warning about incoming North Korean missiles, sending a family into “five minutes of sheer terror.”
In the beginning, there was password hashing and all was good. The one-directional nature of the hash meant that once passed through a hashing algorithm the stored password could only be validated by hashing another password (usually provided at logon) and comparing them. Everyone was happy. Then along came those
The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security.
Another year of horrendous, terrible, no good passwords is in the books.