July 27, 2022

Critical Samba bug could let anyone become Domain Admin – patch now!

It's a serious bug... but there's a fix for it, so you know exactly what to do!

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January 03, 2020

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.

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May 31, 2019

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.

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May 23, 2019

Google stored some passwords in plaintext 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.

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February 15, 2019

Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach

Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach.

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December 12, 2018

Samsung fixes flaws that could have let attackers hijack your account

Flaws in the mobile site were leaving users vulnerable to attackers who could have reset their user passwords and hijacked their accounts.

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November 14, 2018

Support wouldn’t change his password, so he mailed them a bomb

The Cryptopay customer asked customer services for a new password. They refused, given that it was against the company privacy policy.

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September 25, 2018

AdGuard adblocker resets passwords after credential-stuffing attack

AdGuard has taken the decision to reset all user accounts after suffering a credential-stuffing and brute-force password attack.

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November 08, 2016

Hacker used password resets to break into 1,050 university email accounts

How secure are university email accounts?

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