Australia found itself embroiled in yet another controversy this week after returning travelers claimed they were forced to hand over their phones and passwords to border officials at the airport. One man told The Guardian on Tuesday that he and his partner were made to write down their phone passwords …
Read More »Hackers stole passwords, targeted US Defense Department entities in sweeping raid – security firm
According to a report by security firm Palo Alto Networks, a group of unidentified criminals scanned at least 370 servers across the US in September and October. The scans were “largely indiscriminate in nature,” the firm said, with targets ranging from educational institutions to servers linked to the Department of …
Read More »‘Passwords changed’: Congressman Crenshaw suggests his Twitter was HACKED after reporter shames him for following escort
On Thursday, a Daily Dot and Mediaite political reporter Zachary Petrizzo tweeted out that Crenshaw is “currently following an escort on Twitter who charges $1,500 per hour,” along with screenshots of the lingerie-clad blonde. Petrizzo’s tweet was quickly seized upon by Democrat activists, who have previously gone after Crenshaw with …
Read More »Microsoft plans to abandon the use of passwords
Any service, program, or site uses to login registration and login passwords, which have become one of the most important mechanisms of protection. According to the Vice-President of Microsoft Bret Arsenault, the software giant for several years working to develop a reliable system of data protection. The company believes the …
Read More »Created an application that can guess passwords from smartphones
Artificial neural network learned to guess passwords from smartphonesA team of scientists from technological University in Singapore have developed an artificial neural network which is able to guess the pin of a smartphone with an accuracy of 84%. The results of the experiment published in the journal of Cryptology. The …
Read More »Experts suggested the most secure passwords for social networks
Good to know everyone. The company SplashData annually collects a list of passwords that were hacked. This year the experts have gone through 5000000 secret character sets, defined three of the least secure passwords. First place – the combination of 123456, it is most often used by users from all …
Read More »Named passwords that are dangerous to use in routers
All of those passwords, except one, are the default colors. Anubhav made a list of passwords that occur most frequently: admin — 4621 times123456 — 698 times12345 — 575 timesxc3511 — 530 timesGMB182 — 495 timesZte521 — 415 timespassword — 399 timesoelinux123 — 385 timesjauntech — 344 times1234 — 341 …
Read More »Became known, some passwords can be hacked in just a few seconds
The four-digit password on iPhone cracked in under a minute.If you are serious about the protection of your personal data, you will certainly be interested to know that four digit password of your iPhone can be hacked in just 50 seconds. And even if you put the checkbox on erasing …
Read More »Was discovered macOS new virus that steals passwords
New malware has already started to conquer the “Apple” of the device. Table macOS was discovered the malware, called OSX Dok. Experts note that the virus can easily bypass the security Gatekeeper.OSX Dok steals passwords from infected computers. Slowrider impersonating banking sites with the purpose to intercept the data users …
Read More »Blake Crouch in Russia: dates, passwords, secret
We have already reported that in April in Moscow and St. Petersburg will welcome the American writer Blake Crouch, the author of the trilogy the Pines (Wayward Pines) – the same one that was made into the eponymous TV series. “Zone Horror” became known details about the meetings with readers. …
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