April 23, 2019

Once again, it’s 123456: the password that says ‘I give up’

A new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.

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April 04, 2019

Facebook won’t ask for your email password any more

What's that you say - Facebook was asking for the password to your email account? Yes, sometimes it was.

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March 12, 2019

Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers

A recent study shows that if you aren't prepared to ask or pay for security, you probably won't get it.

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February 21, 2019

Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one

Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.

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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 17, 2018

Worst passwords list is out, but this time we’re not scolding users

This is on you, makers of sites and services that allow users to create passwords like "password." You can do better!

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December 14, 2018

Kanye West tops the charts for year’s worst password pratfall

Kanye, please keep your "all zeroes! all the time!" password away from the media. And Nutella? No, "Nutella" is NOT a good password.

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November 20, 2018

Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs

It's another security stumble for the social network.

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October 17, 2018

Is this the simple solution to password re-use?

Researchers concluded that passphrase requirements such as a 15-character minimum length deter the majority users from reusing them on other sites.

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