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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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 More...
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." More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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! More...
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,... More...
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... More...
After an unfortunately long streak of security issues in the tech industry, online password manager LastPass has noticed a network anomaly that could possibly be an unwanted hacker intrusion. As LastPass is no novice to... More...
The Associated Press is reporting that a California man pleaded guilty to seven felonies, all stemming from breaking into email accounts of women, looking through their sent folders for nude photos and videos, and then... More...
Computerworld reports that 1.5 million facebook accounts are up for sale by a hacker going by the moniker Kirllos. To be clear, that's .3% of the estimated 400 million total registered Facebook accounts. VeriSign's iDefense... More...
Sex offenders who live in the state of Georgia have lost a lot more privacy. A new law that went into effect today requires all offenders not only give authorities their Internet email address... More...
Apple has confirmed a security glitch that, in many situations, will let someone with physical access to a Macintosh computer gain access to the password of the active user account. The vulnerability arises out of... More...
A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his bog last Friday that he's discovered Google works as a password MD5 hash cracker. Someone had hacked into his... More...
A leading provider of digital-security services wants to make disposable passwords easier for consumers to accept by squeezing the technology into the corner of a regular credit or ATM card. Fran Rosch, vice president for... More...
Los Angeles Splash Magazines Worldwide, which publishes local versions of its magazines under URLs like NYCSplash.com and LASplash.com, has exposed the personal e-mail addresses and passwords for hundreds of its subscribers. The list of e-mail... More...
Attackers hope to take over users' accounts, then make money by selling the players' in-game goods, such as weapons. A new password-stealing Trojan targeting players of the popular online game "World of Warcraft"... More...
Cisco Systems' customers received e-mails Wednesday from the networking company advising them of a security breach of its Web site. The company said Cisco.com has been compromised and that customers need to... More...
Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows. Detlef Eckert, the senior director in charge of Microsoft's... More...
Passwords will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by biometric and smart-card technology, Bill Gates reiterated on Tuesday. Speaking at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Microsoft chair... More...
Thanks to Neowin's own s.mod BOOGSoftball™ for the heads up on this news. Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL... More...
Passwords have been used since early computing to protect user accounts and sensitive data. Undoubtedly, your company has a password policy and some enforcement of that policy. However, most people have no idea what happens... More...
Today security researchers have discovered a new malware that affects Internet Explorer. This new malware targets bank customer's information. This program copies keystrokes to steal user's passwords from over 50 target online banking... More...
Microsoft and RSA Security on Wednesday started beta testing a product designed to phase out the use of traditional passwords and replace them with automatically generated passwords from a SecurID token. SecurID... More...
Thanks ultimaweapon for this news in Back Page News on our forums. More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found. It also... More...
If your passwords consist of letters and numbers, beware. Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break... More...
Are inkblots meaningless smears of ink, or the secret key to your personality? Though most psychologists no longer use inkblots to determine the twists and turns of your psyche, sometimes they pay attention to the... More...
A new worm on the Internet targets computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, using easy-to-guess passwords for the Administrator account, according to alerts posted by a number of antivirus companies. The new worm, W32/Deloder-A... More...
Bugbear is an Internet worm with a Trojan horse that attempts to steal your passwords and credit card information. Bugbear (w32.bugbear@mm), also known as Tanatos, is about 50KB long and is compressed with the UPX... More...
When installing SQL Server 7.0 (including MSDE 1.0), SQL Server 2000, or a service pack for SQL Server 7.0 or SQL Server 2000, the information provided for the install process is collected and stored in... More...