Cops Fail to Investigate Years of Corruption Due to Lost Password
Courtesy John Johnson, Newser For the last eight years, a watchdog agency in India has diligently collected hundreds of corruption complaints about the Delhi police and forwarded them to the...
View ArticlePassword Storage Disclosure
Courtesy of troyhunt.com Should websites be required to publicly disclose their password storage strategy? I don’t know how Evernote stored my password, you know, the one they think might have been...
View Article7 Ways To Make Up Passwords That Are Both Secure & Memorable
Courtesy Yaara Lancet, MakeUseOf Off the top of your head, how many different passwords do you have? If your answer is 10 or less, you must be using the same password for different services, which...
View ArticlePayPal Chief: Obliterate Passwords
Courtesy Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica PayPal’s top security official is on a quest to kill passwords. “Our intention is to really obliterate, within a certain number of years, both passwords and PINs and...
View ArticleAnatomy of a hack
Courtesy Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica Thanks to the XKCD comic, every password cracking word list in the world probably has correcthorsebatterystaple in it already. Aurich Lawson In March, readers followed...
View Article360 million recently compromised passwords for sale online
Courtesy Dan Goodin, Ars Technica Underscoring the insecurity of many online dating, job, and e-mail services, security researchers said that they have tracked almost 360 million compromised login...
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