If a hacker can continuously input PINs, they may avoid the data erasure protection feature and brute force their way into a device. So it seemed.
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iOS 11 to disintegrate Facebook and Twitter logins, debut Password AutoFill
If you use Facebook or Twitter credentials to log into other apps on an iPhone or iPad, get ready to log in more than you're used to.
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Twitter: credential leak not from server breach, we’re taking action
The microblogging platform is working on damage control after a massive credential leak left about 33 million Twitter accounts’ user information out in the open.Michael Coates, Trust & Information Security Officer, stated in a blog post that the company is “confident the information was not obtained from a hack of Twitter’s
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Nearly 33 million Twitter records revealed, likely by malware
Another day, another big passwords leak.LeakedSource, a site that provides users access to possibly compromised records, has received 32,888,300 Twitter account credentials from someone going by “[email protected]”. In a sample of 15 users, all of them affirmed that the passwords revealed related to their accounts were theirs.The crack likely didn’t occur on Twitter’s side, but with ...
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Google moves forward with Android password-nixing Project Abacus
While it was fairly easy to overlook some of Google’s lower-key I/O 2016 announcements and demos of experimental technologies not yet ready for primetime during the actual jam-packed conference, now that the event is in the past we almost have to talk about things like Project Soli and Abacus.Abacus, as some of you might recall, is the provisional name given to an Android security-modifying initiative that’s both ...
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272 million Mail.ru, Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail accounts poached in Russia
We’re in the age of big data breaches and we’re used to them. Target, T-Mobile and now, a bunch of email accounts.A Russian hacker was said to have been able to rack up the names and credentials of more than 272 million email accounts and would be willing to give it all away to those wanted them for just 50 roubles. That’s about $1.Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security, informed Reuters about the trove. He said that the hacker was prepared to ...
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When will people learn to stop using ‘123456’ and ‘password’ as online passwords?
Is there such a thing as a perfect password? Probably not, but there are definitely dozens, if not hundreds, of imperfect ones.Some of the most common mistakes both desktop and mobile users insist on making while in a hurry or just to ensure they’ll never forget their passcodes to different websites, apps and services include entering too few characters, only numbers or only lowercase letters, as well as personal data like birthdays or names.Then you have your open invitations to hackers, where you can’t even act upset if ...
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