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.
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Apple chops Safari’s TLS certificate validity down to one year
From 1 September 2020, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with more than a year on the clock.
OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support
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.
Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1
New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.
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.
Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached
Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.
Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
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.
Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.
Quora.com admits data breach affecting 100 million accounts
Hackers have compromised data from the accounts of 100 million users of question and answer site Quora.com.
Google, Facebook and Twitter join forces to combat child abuse imagery
Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove potentially millions of child sexual abuse imagery from the web.