September 27, 2018

Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses

Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.

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September 26, 2018

Microsoft is killing passwords one announcement at a time

Windows 10 and Office 365 users can now log in to Azure AD applications using only the Authenticator App.

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September 11, 2018

Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords

Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with "one-way encryption" and is "adding more security measures".

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September 10, 2018

Google Chrome will now generate unique passwords for you

Chrome will now generate a unique password for users as a part of the everyday credential creation process.

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February 06, 2017

News in brief: ministers ‘not securing Twitter accounts’; dark web bug bounty; move on fake news in France

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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February 01, 2017

Facebook takes steps to boost password recovery security

Delegated recovery tool now available only for Github users, but Facebook hopes other sites will take it up

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July 19, 2016

Why you should use a password manager

Password managers are a fantastic tool to keep your online credentials secure. Here's why you should use one.

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October 30, 2015

Webhosting company loses 13 million plaintext passwords, says “thanks for your understanding”

There's another data breach to report - and it's a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the web hosting company 000Webhost.

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September 19, 2015

“Stagefright – are we in the clear now?” [Chet Chat Podcast 214]

Listen to Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in the latest episode of our weekly security podcast...

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