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Restaurant search service Zomato is the latest in a long line of companies to be hacked. The company has revealed that millions of its customer accounts were accessed, with email addresses and hashed passwords stolen. Zomato, which claims 120 million users each month, said that around 17 million accounts are affected, though it has asserted that financial information and […]
Martin Lewis explained how to tell if a cyber hacker has already guessed your password He suggested using website Have I Been Pwned to see if hackers already know the information they might need to hack into you bank account. “The website tells you if any of your details have been taken,” Martin explained on ITV’s This […]
The days of over-complicated, hard-to-remember passwords may soon be over. In its new Digital Identity Guidelines, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling for the elimination of dated standards, such as requiring people to frequently change their passwords or mandating that they use particular types of characters. The guidelines, which are in the process […]
You could be the most careful mobile user ever, but hackers can still steal your PINs and passwords simply by spying on your phone’s motion sensors. A team of cyber researchers from the UK’s Newcastle University have demonstrated how easy it is to steal a four-digit PIN by analyzing the way your phone tilts and […]
Password manager LastPass is patching a number of critical vulnerabilities in its software that left users’ passwords potentially leaking. No software is ever totally safe and while password managers can offer a degree of security and convenience, they are not impervious as these security flaws demonstrate. The latest bugs were discovered by Google Project Zero […]
PH Broadchurch, tomorrow, ITV, 9pm At a launch of the final series of Broadchurch, ITV chief Kevin Lygo introduced the show by declaring he initially “was curious about the success” of the show. Not any more, surely. Created by writer and soon-to-be Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall, Broadchurch has changed the way we think about […]
One of the biggest internet infrastructure companies leaked sensitive data for up to five months. The post Massive Bug May Have Leaked User Data From Millions of Sites. So … Change Your Passwords appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Sensitive personal data including cookies, API keys, and passwords has been leaked by web optimization giant CloudFlare. The company — which provides SSL encryption to millions of sites across the internet — announced the leak in a detailed post on its blog last night. The company said that it had not yet identified any malicious […]
Recently confirmed Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has proposed adding a requirement that all individuals looking to enter the country must give authorities their social media passwords. Secretary Kelly was discussing the President’s executive order on immigration with the House Homeland Security Committee when he said, “We want to get on their social media, with […]
Enlarge / Account recovery programs like this one from United Airlines pose a significant threat to users. (credit: Dan Goodin) Facebook is unveiling a new service that remedies one of the biggest headaches facing online users today—the forgotten password. Starting Tuesday, Facebook will offer a service that allows users who lose their GitHub login credentials […]
