The worst part of the recent, humiliating leak of Sony Pictures' servers isn't the hack itself, but how shamefully easy they made it. A new release by the (yet unidentified) hackers, obtained by Gawker, shows just how little Sony cared for the privacy of its people.
A Washington Post commenter complaining that the "Heartbleed thingamajig" was no big deal posted his email and social media passwords in his rant, to prove nothing would happen if they were out in the open. Something happened. What did we learn?
Imagine if you turned on your computer and found your entire digital life was wiped: years of photos, emails, documents—gone. That happened to Wired writer Mat Honan last weekend, when hackers broke into his most important accounts. But it could have probably been prevented if he'd done one thing: Enabled "two-factor…
There are certain things we hold sacred in this world, and one is that our Internet porn logins, should we choose to have them, will be protected from the public eye. But nothing is sacred anymore, people: A security breach has exposed emails and passwords of more than a million chat users for the porn site…
Wikileaks has always had a healthy sense of self-importance—one that seems, at least in part, well-deserved. But there's something uniquely hubristic about accusing a major newspaper (and former collaborator) of "gross negligence or malice" over the release of 251,000 unredacted top-secret cables—when the fault lies…
Oh, no! Erotic photobloggers and magazine interns everywhere were rocked with the news today that microblogging service Tumblr was the site of a prolonged "phishing" attack that seems to have stolen thousands of Tumblr logins and passwords. How will we ever be able to trust our favorite dogs-wearing-human-clothes…
Most of us store our multitude of passwords and usernames in random emails we send to ourselves, or on used cocktail napkins. But some people use fancy password managers to organize their logins, and they think they're so smart. But what happens when hackers steal the password to your password manager?
Wanna know what it's like to spy for Russia? Court papers spelling out accusations against the 10 people arrested as Russian agents on Monday detail some very movie-like espionage techniques, including code words, "brush passes" and fake IDs.
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Twitter appears to have learned from its security scare earlier this year and seems to be taking password security more seriously than most Internet services.
An analysis of 10,000 Hotmail passwords obtained in a phishing attack reveals that the most common password is "123456," which is pretty much the first thing any decent hacker will try to guess. Your password probably sucks, too.
