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 24, 2020

SSL/TLS certificate validity chopped down to one year by Apple’s Safari

From 1 September 2020, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with more than a year on the clock.

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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 13, 2020

Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1

New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.

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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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August 27, 2019

Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached

Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.

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June 19, 2019

Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly

A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web's most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users' passwords.

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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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December 05, 2018

Quora.com admits data breach affecting 100 million accounts

Hackers have compromised data from the accounts of 100 million users of question and answer site Quora.com.

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