Emailing or texting username-password combos is like assuming your attacker is lazy. Bad assumption. But we still need to share them sometimes. Here’s how to do it a bit more securely.
Results from a survey of 3,419 respondents in 12 U.S. states supports the implementation of a new password security feature expected in all Google accounts next week.
Major sites and browser vendors are increasingly supporting physical two-step authentication keys, known as U2F keys. Could they remedy your account security anxiety?
In revealing that it had been storing unencrypted user passwords, the social media company requests, but doesn’t force, Twitter password resets of its 330 million users—the “bare minimum for doing right” by them, one expert says.
The WebAuthn authentication protocol, backed by Google, Microsoft, PayPal, and others (but notably not Apple), uses physical second factors like phones, and supports biometrics.
To gain unrestricted access to Macs running High Sierra prior to patching, someone could simply enter the word “root” as the username. Apple’s major misstep isn’t isolated, experts say.
The newly announced Blackfish technology is designed to detect a credential-stuffing attack, “see” the stolen username-password combinations being tested, and prevent a successful log-in.
Traditional passwords, often easily cracked or guessed, aren’t likely to lose much ground to multifactor or biometric authentication any day soon, experts say. Here’s why.
With phishing attacks spoofing password reset emails on the rise, experts advise, above all else, manually going to the site to log in rather than clicking on any links within the email.
Making a new year’s resolution to clean up your digital-security act? Here are 10 secure apps to consider, from ad blockers and password managers to private browsers and secure messaging apps.
Penetration test expert Chris Nickerson, whose clients pay him to social-engineer his way into their doors and networks, discusses how even security-smart people get hacked.
The iPhone isn’t the only popular device you can essentially lock government agencies and hackers out of. Here are seven ways to strengthen the walls around your Android.
At ShmooCon in D.C., privacy advocate Jessy Irwin sits down with The Parallax to explain why security companies need to better know and communicate with their audiences.
