Study finds consumers would choose biometric authentication over passwords
Passwords are a double-edged sword: they are meant to protect information, but they are also frustrating with so many to […]
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170m passwords stolen in Zynga hack, monitor says
Words With Friends company admitted hack in September but size only now revealed. More than 170m usernames and passwords were […]
Over 21 million stolen login credentials found on the dark web
Stolen login credentials from Fortune 500 companies have been found in numerous places on the dark web, many of which […]
Microsoft: Using multi-factor authentication blocks 99.9% of account hacks
Old advice like “never use a password that has ever been seen in a breach” or “use really long passwords” […]
Irish data regulator looking into Facebook password gaffe
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) has confirmed it’s looking into the hundreds of millions of passwords that Facebook stored without […]
Facebook app developers leaked millions of user records on cloud servers
Facebook app developers left hundreds of millions of user records exposed on publicly visible cloud servers. The larger of the […]
Study shows programmers will take the easy way out and not implement proper password security
In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn academics have discovered that developers […]
WebAuthn: What you need to know about the future of the passwordless Web
Hate passwords? We all do. So Microsoft, Google, and other browser makers have made WebAuthn to replace passwords with your […]
W3C and FIDO Alliance Finalize Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance announced the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now an official […]
Google’s new Chrome Extension checks your passwords are still secure
A new Chrome Extension from Google called Password Checkup will automatically check whether your passwords have been exposed in a […]
Largest collection of breached data ever seen is found
The largest collection of breached data ever seen has been discovered, comprising of more than 770m email addresses and passwords […]
How Hackers Bypass Gmail 2FA at Scale
Hackers can bypass these protections, as we’ve seen with leaked NSA documents on how Russian hackers targeted US voting infrastructure […]