Neowin News Feed for: Passwords

Twitter might start using two-factor authentication

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:21:54 +0000

Just days after a massive breach in their security Twitter might be working on a two-step verification for users. Similar to what banks and other companies use this would make user accounts safer. Read more...

FBI announces arrest of 10 people over Butterfly Botnet

Paul Ferson — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:13:10 +0000

The FBI has confirmed the arrest of 10 people over the Butterfly Botnet; a botnet that, peaking at more than 11 million machines infected, harvesting details on bank accounts and passwords. Read more...

The 25 most popular passwords of 2012

Brad Sams — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:19:17 +0100

We know that remembering your password may be hard, but your security is at stake which means crafting a unique and non-dictionary password is all but necessary in today's world. Read more...

Intel's newest solution to passwords: wave your hands

Rob Schorman — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:33:30 +0100

Researchers at Intel think they have found a a replacement for passwords by waving your hands in front of the screen, after which the system recognizes the pattern of veins in the palm of your hand Read more...

American Express doesn't take security seriously

Christopher White — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:43:02 +0100

We found that American express not only has problems with its customers picking strong passwords, they also think that information that is public record should be treated as "confidential." Read more...

8 million passwords leaked from Gamigo gaming service

John Callaham — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:41:15 +0100

Eight million passwords and email addresses from the Gamigo online gaming service founded their way to a public website earlier in July, after the company announced their servers had been hacked. Read more...

NVIDIA forums hacked, accounts compromised

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:13:55 +0100

NVIDIA has announced it has suspended its forums following a hacking incident in which usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords and public user information was compromised. Read more...

Yahoo! Voice compromised, over 450,000 passwords stolen

Christopher White — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:44:12 +0100

Another day, another password breach. This time Yahoo! Voice was attacked and over 450,000 passwords have been stolen via an apparent SQL injection attack. Read more...

Woman files lawsuit against LinkedIn over password breaches

Paul Ferson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:35:21 +0100

An Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit against LinkedIn after its password breach, citing the company's incorrect claims about its level of protection for users. Read more...

Millions of LinkedIn passwords have been stolen

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:23:49 +0100

A new report claims that a poster on a Russian message board has released over 6.4 million hashed passwords from LinkedIn members, with over 300,000 of the weaker passwords already cracked. Read more...

Young people pick terrible passwords compared to their elders

Christopher White — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:52:57 +0100

A new study by Joseph Bonneau of Cambridge University shows that older people tend to pick better passwords than younger people and that folks from Indonesia don't pick secure passwords at all. Read more...

Half of employees would sell work passwords for a few bucks

Andy Weir — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:57:00 +0100

A survey finds that just under half of employees would have no problem selling their work login details for a paltry sum, with many placing a far higher value on their personal Facebook passwords. Read more...

Facebook slams some employers for asking for Facebook passwords

John Callaham — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:27:51 +0000

A new message from Facebook takes some businesses to task for asking for the Facebook passwords of their employees, stating that Facebook could even take legal action against such companies. Read more...

Hackers slip into Digital Playground, steal credit card info

Christopher White — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:29:19 +0000

Digital Playground, one of the most popular pornography sites on the web, was hacked today. Over 40,000 credit card numbers and 72,000 usernames and passwords were stolen. Read more...

YouPorn drops the soap, massive amounts of user data stolen

Brad Sams — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:25:38 +0000

YouPorn has accidently exposed the user names and passwords of more than one million accounts. The information was stored on a public facing server that is now offline. Read more...

Microsoft's India Store has been compromised, passwords saved as plain text

Brad Sams — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:06:17 +0000

Microsoft's online store in India has been compromised and passwords related to that site have been exposed. As of 12PM EST, the site was still offline. Read more...

Windows 8 blog talks more about picture passwords

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:40:18 +0000

A new update to the official Windows 8 developers blog gives more information about the previously announced picture passwords support for Microsoft's next PC operating system. Read more...

The worst online passwords: Did you make the list?

Christopher White — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:38:05 +0000

Password security is a difficult problem to solve because of how many passwords we must remember. Here's a list of 25 passwords that you should not use if you value your security! Read more...

Sony services attacked: personal information and encrypted passwords stolen

Denis Wong — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:55:46 +0100

The PlayStation Network may be on its way to recovery, but it seems online criminals are continuing to wage war with Sony and its properties. Late last week, we reported on an attack on So-net,... Read more...

Staying Secure Online: Passwords

Paul Spain — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:31:45 +0100

This article is the first in a series on how to stay secure online. It's a topic I am often asked about and which I am surprised regularly by how little thought it is given... Read more...