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Tag Archives: password
Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex issues password reset warning
Yes, there was a breach. But it’s an old one that the crooks are trying to use again.
Backdoor discovered in Ruby strong_password library
An eagle-eyed developer has discovered a backdoor recently sneaked into a library (or ‘gem’) used by Ruby on Rails (RoR) web apps to check password strength.
Change your Facebook password now!
Facebook has done an audit and shocked even itself by finding plaintext passwords in logfiles back to 2012. Change your password now!
Are you Cyber Aware? How about your friends and family?
A Cyber Aware survey found 30% of Britons still have just one password for all their accounts – so let’s help that 30% change their lives!
Credit card gobbling code found piggybacking on ecommerce sites
Be careful! If crooks can upload malicious JavaScript to your ecommerce server, then you’re helping the them rip off your own customers.
Twitter admits to password storage blunder – change your password now!
Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database – but not in its logs, where it’s been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.
Yet another Apple password leak – how to avoid it
Passwords in plaintext – again! Here’s Apple’s latest macOS password bug – plus a handy workaround to deal with it.
What would YOU do with a $1,000,000 exploit? [Chet Chat Podcast 220]
Here’s the past week’s news in a way that’s fun, informative and educational – all in a tight, quarter-hour podcast format. (Plus – find out what Chester would do with the $1m!)
vBulletin enforces password reset after website attack
vBulletin and Foxit Software forums hack exposes hundreds of thousands of records amid zero-day vulnerability speculation.