January 18, 2018

Hijackers DM @realDonaldTrump from former Fox News hosts’ accounts

The hackers tweeted out love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "We love turkish soldiers, we love Erdogan, we love Turkey."

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May 24, 2017

Hacked Twitter account spits out poison – make sure yours isn’t next

Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom - how could they have prevented it? We've got some advice

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October 07, 2016

‘Security fatigue’ leading computer users to more or less just give up

Either we all need naps, or security has to be made simpler for users, because many of us are exhausted by alert fatigue.

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August 23, 2016

Who needs software vulnerabilities when you can find lame passwords?

Most criminals don't need to target software to infiltrate a network and get at sensitive data: getting credentials will do the job just fine.

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July 20, 2016

Baseball scouting exec gets 46 months for guessing rival team’s password

Chris Correa, ex-scouting director for the Cardinals, was sentenced for breaching the Astros' internal database and email.

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July 07, 2016

Hijacked NASA Kepler Twitter feed tweets entirely new type of moon shot

No, those weren't a new red ring found around Uranus: they were panties.

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March 07, 2016

Let your uSeRS chOOse wACKy passWords, US banks!

With many US banks, what you see in your password field may not be what you get.

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January 13, 2016

Google takes another stab at killing passwords

Google is testing a way to log into devices with a challenge sent to your Android or iOS phone, rather than a password.

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February 19, 2015

Twitter’s new tool should stop password sharing and help fend off hijackings

The new tool, TweetDeck Teams, lets users share Twitter accounts without having to share passwords.

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