The site also promises to keep an eye out for suspicious log-ins and may ask you for further information to verify your account. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million (about $137 million CAD) for a 2019 security breach in which the company mistakenly stored user passwords in plain text. Moreover, the ...

Nearly 80 percent of Americans own a smartphone, and a growing proportion of them use smartphones for internet access, not just when they’re on the go. This leads to people storing considerable ...

The best password managers are meant to keep all your logins and credit card info safe and secure, but a major new vulnerability has just put users of the KeePass password manager at serious risk of ...

There are so many sites that store passwords in the clear that normally when I come across one, I make a mental note to never trust it with anything too important, or to find a similar service that ...

A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The exposed server ...

In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we’ll call X) noticed that their power company’s website was offering to email—not reset!—lost account passwords to forgetful ...

A security flaw in the most recent version of OS X Lion, 10.7.3, can allow anyone with access to system logs to gather passwords to decrypt legacy FileVault home directories or access remote home ...

Janne Lindqvist receives funding from National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Department of Education. He is a professional member of AAAS, ACM, IEEE and ...