November 30, 2022

Serious Security: MD5 considered harmful – to the tune of $600,000

It's not just the hashing, by the way. It's the salting and the stretching, too!

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August 08, 2022

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

"When those invitations went out... somehow, your password hash went out with them."

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April 24, 2020

AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords

For years, abusers have used complex keywords to covertly talk about imagery, but analysts have sussed out much of the secret code.

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March 05, 2020

Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack

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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February 19, 2020

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.

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January 09, 2020

Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images

It isn't new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy's intact - unless you're dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing.

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December 03, 2019

Mixcloud user accounts up for sale on dark web

A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports.

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October 14, 2019

Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code

Old passwords never die... they just become easier to decode.

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October 02, 2019

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.

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