It’s not a violation of her Fifth Amendment rights, the court said, because it’s a “foregone conclusion” that she knows her phone passcode.
Tag Archives: passwords
Phishy text message tries to steal your cellphone account
Which sort of company is most likely to contact you via SMS? Why, your mobile phone provider, of course!
Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code
Old passwords never die… they just become easier to decode.
218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.
Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims.
Massive MoviePass database found exposed on public server
Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password.
Big password hole in iOS 13 beta spotted by testers
A security clanger has been spotted in the current beta version of iOS 13 which allows anyone to access a user’s stored web and app passwords without having to authenticate.
Google stored some passwords in plain text for 14 years
Nobody got at the subset of G Suite passwords, Google said, apologizing and saying that it’s working to ensure this is an isolated incident.
World Password Day – what (NOT!) to do
Yeah, yeah, yeah… we really ought to get around to picking proper passwords for everything – and here’s why!
Microsoft drops password expiration from Windows 10 security
Microsoft has recognised that users don’t actually change their passwords when prompted, they just tweak them. And that doesn’t help anyone.