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Imgur Data Breach exposed almost 1.7 Million Users sensitive Emails and Passwords that was occurred in 2014. Imgur is an online image sharing community which has 150 Million total users, 6 Billion page views per month, 1.5 Million Images uploading daily by Imgur visitors. This potential Imgur Data Breach was reported by a Web security […]
Dutch Police are aggressively going after Dark Web vendors using data they collected from the recently seized Hansa Market. Currently, the infosec community and former Hansa vendors themselves have spotted two ways in which Dutch authorities are going after former Hansa vendors. Police gain access to Dream accounts via password reuse In the first, Dutch […]
Sometimes, all it takes is a trusting soul and a paragraph of information online for a person to gain access to your account. Whether the intent is an innocent catfish or a hacking mastermind, you can never be too safe with your identity. What a lot of people don’t realize is that your identity is […]
A JavaScript file secretly loaded without your knowledge on a site, or app you load on your mobile device, can access data from various sensors and collect information needed to guess the passwords or PIN a user is entering on his device. This novel attack technique was discovered and explored by a team of scientists […]
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced at a hearing that discussions are being held with regards to the introduction of more stringent vetting measures as part of the pre-screening of visa applicants. One of the prerequisites under discussion is the disclosure of social media account passwords to American embassies upon applying for visas. More: US […]
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Cracking The 12+ Character Password Barrier, Literally 12 Characters? Are you serious?! What do I mean by cracking 12 characters passwords and above? I’m simply stating that with modern hardware, like the “budget” cracking rig, we can almost exhaustively search the highest probability keyspace for candidate passwords, against fast hashes like MD5, NTLM, SHA1, etc…, […]
The way users move fingers across a phone’s touchscreen alters the WiFi signals transmitted by a mobile phone, causing interruptions that an attacker can intercept, analyze, and reverse engineer to accurately guess what the user has typed on his phone or in password input fields. This type of attack, nicknamed WindTalker, is only possible when […]
Passwords are everywhere. We use them to unlock phones, computers, websites, encrypted disks, encrypted files… the list just goes on and on. Savvy users will already have a password manager of some sort that can generate a very strong password on a per site basis. However, these password managers also require a password. Not only […]
Sending passwords through an Internet connection or Bluetooth is not safe anymore so these researchers have developed a technology that sends passwords through nothing else but the human body. Researchers at the University of Washington have finally figured out a way to use a human body to transmit sensitive information such as your passwords and other […]
Don’t reuse the same password across multiple sites; recycling is especially dangerous for email, banking and social media accounts. Don’t use the following in passwords or answers to website security questions: loved ones’ names (pets included), hometowns, wedding dates or anything else that can be gleaned with some online research. Don’t save passwords or use […]
Reddit to Reset Passwords of 100,000 Users in Two Week time due to Surprising Upsurge in Hack Attacks Reddit has been on the radar of hackers and malicious actors nowadays as the company has received a flurry of hack attacks resulting in many users accounts being compromised or hijacked. Thus, the company has now announced to […]
Short Bytes: To stop you from using insecure passwords that are easy to guess and crack, Microsoft has activated the Dynamic Password Banning system in its Microsoft Account Service and Azure AD. The company is also using the Smart Password Lockout feature to restrict the bad guys from accessing your account. Having a strong password […]
Short Bytes: In the wake of increasing security threats and password leaks, Google is working on Project Abacus that will introduce Trust API in Android devices. This API will calculate your Trust Score and use them to give you access to various services. This score will be calculated by using a variety of user patterns. […]
Short Bytes: A recent report by the cyber security firm Rapid7 lists the top usernames and passwords used by hackers to attack your servers. During the past 334 days, the firm placed honeypots to collect such login attempts and record the data. During the past one year, the cyber security firm Rapid7 has been collecting […]
The IT security researcher “Chris Vickery” who exposed MacKeeper and Hzone data breach has now discovered a hack of database belonging to Hello kitty website having over details inside. But, Hello kitty is not the only website to have suffered the data breach, another website “sanriotown.com” had the similar fate, but the number of account […]
On Tuesday, Amazon started sending out emails to its users asking for a quick password reset, the reason is a possible breach of some of the users’ credentials. According to the email (dispatched by the company), Amazon was not sure if there is a possible breach into their systems or not but as a precautionary […]
Short Bytes: Mira Modi, an 11-year-old girl, has started a business of selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each. She generated Diceware passwords, writes them by hands and sends by postal mail. The unprecedented speed, at which data breaches are taking place and our online passwords are being compromised, is surely alarming. If nothing else, […]
A new phishing campaign has been doing the rounds on the Internet in which hackers are using Amazon UK’s fake email message as bait to entice targeted user base for phishing attacks, a security research reveals. A blog post published by security and malware experts over at Malwarebytes blog which states that hackers are using spam email […]
Since its release, Windows 10 is surrounded by controversies, but at the same time the operating system offers some mind-blowing features such as logging into your system with a picture password. Windows 10 enables you to log into your computer in more ways than ever. It’s up to you whether you choose to use a normal […]
Android users need to be highly careful while using your smartphone as ESET researchers have identified simplocker, a new screen-locking malware that specifically targets users in the United States. This new ransomware is the first one that is capable of changing a smartphone’s PIN lock, which is one of the phone’s security code. The Android […]