Neowin News Feed for: Password

Today is Password Day; McAfee suggests you change yours

John Callaham — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:29:17 +0100

Today has been designated as Password Day and to celebrate the occasion McAfee and its parent company Intel want everyone to change their password, and offer tips on making strong passwords. Read more...

Report: Twitter now testing two-factor authentication option

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:23:48 +0100

Twitter is reportedly testing an optional two-factor authentication method for its accounts, although it's currently unknown when the option will be made available to the public. Read more...

KeePass 2.22 has been released

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:07:53 +0100

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key. Read more...

Apple disables password resets after vulnerability discovered [Update]

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:19:20 +0000

Apple has disabled their iForgot password reset tool for Apple ID and iCloud accounts, following the discovery of a vulnerability that allowed for extremely easy access to anyone's account Read more...

Evernote latest to be hacked, passwords reset

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:51:40 +0000

Evernote has announced that they have been hacked, with user's email addresses, (encrypted) passwords and username data being stolen, although they claim documents weren't accessed. Read more...

LastPass 2.0.20

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:53:43 +0000

LastPass is easy, secure password and data management. Not only is the LastPass Password Manager free, it saves you time while keeping you safe. While our minds struggle to keep track of an increasing Read more...

KeePass 2.21 available for download

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:16:32 +0000

Mega pledges to offer more password options

John Callaham — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:21:47 +0000

The newly launched Mega file sharing website has pledged to offer new options that will allow users to change their passwords sometime in the future while defending its current security methods. Read more...

Google has a solution to the password problem

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:28:44 +0000

Google recognizes that traditional passwords are no longer safe, and so they've developed and are trialling an easy to use, hardware-based solution to the password problem Read more...

Facebook password laws go into effect in some US states

John Callaham — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:16:47 +0000

California and Illinois now have new laws that go into effect today that are designed to keep employers from asking their employees to give up their password protected Facebook accounts. Read more...

Windows passwords easily guessed by 25-GPU server

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:40:00 +0000

A server cluster comprising of 25 AMD Radeon GPUs can crack every single eight-character Windows password in under 6 hours, at blistering rate of 350 billion guesses per second Read more...

KeePass 2.20.1

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:56:23 +0100

RoboForm 7.8.2.5

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:33:02 +0100

RoboForm is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling. The all new RoboForm 7 comes with Chrome and Safari browser support, iPhone Read more...

Vulnerability found in Windows that makes your password easier to guess

Stefano Elia — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:21:34 +0100

It's been revealed that a vulnerability in Windows 7 and 8, makes it easier for remote hackers to guess the targetted computer's password by decrypting the user password hint. Read more...

RoboForm 7.8.0.5

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:49:28 +0100

Dropbox rolls out new security features, denies server breach

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:30:51 +0100

When Dropbox customers starting receiving Spam on email addresses used only for that service, it seemed likely that they too had fallen victim to a server breach, as it turns out, nope! Read more...

One in five Microsoft accounts controlled by hackers

Tyler Holman — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:19:30 +0100

Microsoft says that one in five Microsoft Accounts is now controlled by hackers, but it's not for lack of security on their end: it's people who reuse the same username and password on different sites Read more...

RoboForm 7.7.9.5

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:09:07 +0100

LastPass 2.0.2

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:20:21 +0100

LastPass 2.00.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:08:01 +0100