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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakingly stored users’ passwords in plain text, Engadget reported. Meta’s original announcement only talked about how it found some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January
Despite all the warnings, 23 million people worldwide use the password "123456". This is according the UK's National Cyber Security Centre which analysed the Have I Been Pwned data set to produce a list of the top 100,000 passwords. It's frankly embarrassing - here's the top 10. Anyone who uses any of these should have their computer, tablet and phone
On November 24, 2013, researchers at Trustwave discovered that hackers have obtained up to 2 million passwords for websites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter (and others). Researchers learned this after digging into source code from Pony bonnet. It appears that information about this has only been made public very recently. Here's some quick stats about some of the domains from
It's sad that, even today, lists like this exist. Unfortunately, security continues to be a major issue for computer users around the world thanks to, not only malware and viruses, but also just plain old lack of understanding by many users. The biggest problem can be insecure passwords, which account for many of the highest profile hacks that make the
If you're the kind of person who wants to use really strong passwords but you've a memory like a sieve, then PasswordCard might be for you. It's a credit card-sized set of random characters with symbols along the top and coloured bars which you keep handy in your wallet (or phone). So how does it work? First of all, set
Whenever I want to feel fearful and depressed I usually visit one of the news websites. Earthquakes, murder, war, theft, snoops, kidnappers, recession, depression, corruption, and all other sorts of horrible news. When I read the news sites I'm reminded of how unsafe the world is. Soon I tire of the bad news and move on to investigate the net
When you sign up for a new site that requires a logon with a password, it generally asks you to answer one or more security questions just in case you forget your password. These questions are simple ones like "What was the name of your first pet?", "What street did you live on when you were growing up?", "What city