Slashdot Items Tagged "passwords"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:25PM Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not?
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:41AM Passwords, No More Pain
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:16AM 5 Secrets to Protect Your Passwords
Friday December 09, 2022 @06:11PM Passkey Support Rolls Out To Chrome Stable
Monday September 19, 2022 @05:33PM Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Enhanced Spellcheck Feature Exposes Passwords
Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:09PM The Passwords Most Used By CEOs Are Startlingly Dumb
Thursday March 31, 2022 @07:21PM Father-Son Team Helps People Brute-Force Their Lost Bitcoin Wallets
Friday March 25, 2022 @01:04AM Netflix Could Reap $1.6 Billion Per Year By Charging Password-Sharing Users Extra Fees, Analysts Say
Monday December 20, 2021 @04:41PM The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned'
Friday December 17, 2021 @07:43PM Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year?
Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:38PM Chrome Now Uses Duplex To Fix Your Stolen Passwords
Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:20PM iCloud For Windows Gaining Support For iCloud Passwords Chrome Extension
Friday December 18, 2020 @06:12PM Microsoft: 2021 Is the Year Passwords Die
Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:15PM Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information
Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:01PM The Worst Passwords of 2020 Show We Are Just As Lazy About Security As Ever
Monday October 12, 2020 @06:01PM How Many Americans Still Secretly Use Their Ex's Passwords
Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:27PM LastPass Will Warn You If Your Passwords Show Up On the Dark Web
Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:33PM Hacker Leaks Passwords For 900+ Enterprise VPN Servers
Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:17PM Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly Confirms Data Breach
Friday July 17, 2020 @07:38PM VPN With 'Strict No-Logs Policy' Exposed Millions of User Log Files
Friday January 31, 2020 @05:21PM Social Media Boosting Service Exposed Thousands of Instagram Passwords
Monday January 20, 2020 @09:35PM LastPass Is In the Midst of a Major Outage
Tuesday December 10, 2019 @06:21PM Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen
Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:30PM Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password
Friday November 01, 2019 @05:09PM NordVPN Users' Passwords Exposed In Mass Credential-Stuffing Attacks
Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:17PM Computer Historians Crack Passwords of Unix's Early Pioneers
Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:01PM World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:47PM Weakness In Intel Chips Lets Researchers Steal Encrypted SSH Keystrokes
Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:29PM Disney Fights Streaming Account Sharing With Help From Cable Industry
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:56PM Researchers Found World-Readable Database Used To Secure Buildings Around the Globe
Monday August 12, 2019 @12:42PM Google Will Now Let Android Users Log In To Some Services Without A Password
Friday August 09, 2019 @06:22PM MoviePass Reportedly Changed Account Passwords To Prevent Users From Seeing Films
Monday May 13, 2019 @06:55PM Academics Improve SHA-1 Collision Attack, Make It Actually Dangerous
Monday March 18, 2019 @04:52PM Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online
Monday March 04, 2019 @06:29PM Facebook's Phone Number Policy Could Push Users To Not Trust Two-Factor Authentication
Monday February 25, 2019 @06:30PM Millions of Utility Customers' Passwords Stored In Plain Text
Monday February 04, 2019 @07:01PM Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave
Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:52AM Collection 1 Data Breach Exposes More Than 772 Million Email Addresses
Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:05PM Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking
Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:23PM OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently
Monday November 05, 2018 @10:33PM Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:51PM An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet
Friday September 21, 2018 @07:09PM Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:23PM California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @04:41PM 'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:22PM Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords
Friday August 31, 2018 @04:39PM Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK
Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:15PM Passwords For Tens of Thousands of Dahua Devices Cached In IoT Search Engine
Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:39PM Ticketfly Says 27 Million Accounts Compromised During 'Malicious' Attack
Sunday May 20, 2018 @03:16PM 'TeenSafe' Phone Monitoring App Leaked Thousands of User Passwords
Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:17PM Twitter Says Glitch Exposed 'Substantial' Number of Users' Passwords In Plain Text
Friday April 06, 2018 @06:17PM T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:06PM Jewelry Site Leaks Personal Details, Plaintext Passwords of 1.3 Million Users
Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:56PM Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming
Friday December 08, 2017 @05:52PM People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now
Friday December 01, 2017 @05:00PM Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era
Friday November 24, 2017 @11:27PM Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack
Friday October 06, 2017 @07:56PM Disqus Confirms Over 17.5 Million Email Addresses Were Stolen In 2012 Hack of Its Comments Tool
Friday October 06, 2017 @07:30PM Browsers Will Store Credit Card Details Similar To How They Save Passwords
Monday September 18, 2017 @09:37PM AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier
Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:31PM Password Power Rankings: a Look At the Practices of 40+ Popular Websites
Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:35PM The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So
Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:42PM Font Sharing Site DaFont Has Been Hacked, Exposing Thousands of Accounts
Monday May 08, 2017 @12:17PM Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations
Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:23PM 2.5 Million Xbox and PlayStation Gamers' Details Have Been Leaked From Piracy Forums
Monday October 03, 2016 @04:59PM Researchers Develop System To Send Passwords, Keys Through Users' Bodies
Thursday September 29, 2016 @08:06PM The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices
Friday September 23, 2016 @07:30PM 40 Percent of Organizations Store Admin Passwords In Word Documents, Says Survey
Monday July 18, 2016 @05:52PM Ex Cardinal's Scouting Director Chris Correa Sentenced To 46 Months For Hacking Astros' Computer System
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:27AM Google Is Finally Making Two-Step Verification Less Annoying
Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:32PM Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums
Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:31AM Russian Hacker Selling Information of 32 Million Twitter Accounts, Report Says
Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:19PM Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey
Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:59PM Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:02PM Elderly Use More Secure Passwords Than Millennials, Says Report
Monday May 23, 2016 @01:34PM Google Plans To Bring Password-Free Logins To Android Apps By Year-End
Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:35PM Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:28PM FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members
Sunday January 24, 2016 @12:23AM Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:26AM Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched
Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:39AM European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say
Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:28AM 600,000 Arris Cable Modems Have 'Backdoors In Backdoors,' Researcher Claims
Saturday October 17, 2015 @12:43PM Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:41AM LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million
Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:02PM New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste
Saturday May 02, 2015 @03:47PM Researcher Bypasses Google Password Alert For Second Time
Thursday April 23, 2015 @08:40AM POS Vendor Uses Same Short, Numeric Password Non-Stop Since 1990
Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:32PM Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess
Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:40AM Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say
Thursday December 04, 2014 @06:13PM Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords?
Tuesday November 04, 2014 @02:21PM Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory?
Tuesday October 14, 2014 @09:46AM Dropbox Wasn't Hacked, Says Leaked Credentials Are From Unrelated Services
Thursday September 25, 2014 @10:16AM Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure?
Thursday August 07, 2014 @08:37AM Mozilla Dumps Info of 76,000 Developers To Public Web Server
Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:33PM Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management
Saturday April 19, 2014 @09:29PM Preventative Treatment For Heartbleed On Healthcare.gov
Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:00AM NYU Group Says Its Scheme Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible
Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:36PM eBay Japan Passwords Revealed As Username+123456
Tuesday March 11, 2014 @03:16PM Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords
Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:53AM Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access
Tuesday December 31, 2013 @11:57AM Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text
Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:44PM Windows 8's Picture Passwords Weaker Than Users Might Hope
Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:11AM 353,436 Exposed ZTE Devices Found In Net Census
Friday July 26, 2013 @06:34PM Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services
Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:26PM Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear
Friday May 17, 2013 @08:34PM Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts
Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:33AM Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @10:00AM Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @09:38AM Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes
Tuesday September 25, 2012 @09:56AM Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords
Sunday September 09, 2012 @08:30AM WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:10AM Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords
Thursday June 07, 2012 @11:30AM MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe
Saturday June 02, 2012 @01:21PM Geezers Pick Stronger Passwords Than Young'uns
Friday May 18, 2012 @07:13PM Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies
Saturday May 12, 2012 @07:54AM Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management?
Sunday April 08, 2012 @12:18PM Scientists Release Working Prototype Of CAPTCHA-Based Password Assistant
Friday March 16, 2012 @06:39PM Throwing Light On Elcomsoft's Analysis of Smartphone Password Managers
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @12:29PM Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords?
Monday July 18, 2011 @07:27PM The Science of Password Selection
Monday June 06, 2011 @09:22AM A Brief Sony Password Analysis
Sunday June 05, 2011 @04:28PM Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless
Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:16PM LastPass Password Service Hacked
Wednesday February 09, 2011 @09:17AM Are You Sure SHA-1+Salt Is Enough For Passwords?
Friday January 28, 2011 @07:33PM Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through
Sunday January 16, 2011 @10:41AM Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession
Wednesday December 22, 2010 @02:02PM Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security
Wednesday December 15, 2010 @01:43AM The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords
Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:33PM Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised
Friday December 10, 2010 @12:02PM IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail
Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:27PM How Often Should You Change Your Password?
Thursday September 30, 2010 @11:00PM Map Based Passwords
Tuesday September 07, 2010 @12:02PM NYT Password Security Discussion Overlooks Universal Logins
Tuesday August 17, 2010 @12:29AM 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email
Wednesday July 21, 2010 @07:14AM Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?)
Tuesday April 13, 2010 @01:59PM Please Do Not Change Your Password
Tuesday March 16, 2010 @08:47PM Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards
Tuesday November 10, 2009 @04:46PM Best Tool For Remembering Passwords?
Monday September 10, 2007 @09:47PM Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure