Stratfor subscribers rickrolled, CEO butt of jokes 

Stratfor subscribers rickrolled, CEO butt of jokes

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 7 January 2012 1:04 PM
Emails sent by deranged, sexually-deviant, criminal, hacker, terrorist masterminds.
StratFor subscriber base posted to the web 

StratFor subscriber base posted to the web

In Hackers - By Brett Winterford, 30 December 2011 6:27 PM
Thousands of Australians exposed.
'Soft' SecurID hits mobiles 

'Soft' SecurID hits mobiles

In Applications - By SC Staff, 14 October 2011 11:43 PM
New software developer kits brings one-time passwords to iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
Self-service passwords cuts costs for Optus 

Self-service passwords cuts costs for Optus

In Networks - By Liz Tay, 26 July 2011 9:26 AM
Curbs 'bad behaviour' among outsourcers and employees.
Google wipes Street View data, guts cars 

Google wipes Street View data, guts cars

In Risk - By Liam Tung, 5 May 2011 11:12 AM
Update to kill sniffing software.
France password law 'shocks' Google, Facebook 

France password law 'shocks' Google, Facebook

In Risk - By Stewart Mitchell, 8 April 2011 12:07 PM
Handing passwords to police could be a security nightmare
MySQL hit by irony attack 

MySQL hit by irony attack

In Crypto - By Tom Brewster, 29 March 2011 7:43 AM
SQL injection exposes weak passwords.
The case for splitting identity and access 

The case for splitting identity and access

In Networks - By Dan Raywood, 28 March 2011 9:59 AM
There are good reasons why the twain should never meet.
DPS forced to defend network reliability 

DPS forced to defend network reliability

In Networks - By Ry Crozier, 22 February 2011 2:33 PM
Forced "password upgrade" behind latest Parliamentary computer glitch.
Spammers steal 400k user identities from recruiter 

Spammers steal 400k user identities from recruiter

In Applications - By Dan Raywood, 14 February 2011 8:24 AM
Job seekers' identities compromised in massive data breach.
Businesses vulnerable with 'antiquated' logins 

Businesses vulnerable with 'antiquated' logins

In Networks - By Tom Brewster, 18 January 2011 12:38 PM
90% of workers required to remember two or more passwords.
Gawker breach prompts LinkedIn, Yahoo password resets 

Gawker breach prompts LinkedIn, Yahoo password resets

In Networks - By Angela Moscaritolo, 20 December 2010 1:56 PM
Antiquated encryption algorithm a key security flaw.
Amazon EC2 GPU becomes password cracker 

Amazon EC2 GPU becomes password cracker

In Networks - By Liam Tung, 17 November 2010 1:40 PM
Speedy cracker.
Live hack proves password theft is easy 

Live hack proves password theft is easy

In Networks - By Tom Brewster, 3 November 2010 2:52 PM
Fake hotspot snares users.
Expiring passwords easily hacked 

Expiring passwords easily hacked

In Networks - By Eric Doyle, 18 October 2010 1:24 PM
Four in 10 passwords can be hacked in three seconds, according to US researchers.
Atlassian suffers data breach, downtime 

Atlassian suffers data breach, downtime

In Risk - 14 April 2010 12:46 PM
Company founder apologises to affected customers.
New phishing attack hits Twitter 

New phishing attack hits Twitter

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 23 March 2010 12:21 PM
Direct messages used again.
Faux Facebook emails use password reset ploy  

Faux Facebook emails use password reset ploy

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 19 March 2010 10:16 AM
Attachment is malicious.
Poor password behaviour beating banking security 

Poor password behaviour beating banking security

In Networks - By Iain Thomson, 3 February 2010 3:06 PM
Report finds massive re-use of passwords.
New study highlights weak password policies 

New study highlights weak password policies

In Networks - By Shaun Nichols, 22 January 2010 11:13 AM
Users still selecting easily-compromised passwords.
Facebook employee reports widespread privacy abuses 

Facebook employee reports widespread privacy abuses

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 13 January 2010 11:23 AM
Employees accessed user accounts with master password.
Trojan attack targets Facebook users 

Trojan attack targets Facebook users

In Applications - By David Neal, 29 October 2009 8:48 AM
Malware scam claims to offer password reset confirmation.
Password breaches lead to rise in email spam 

Password breaches lead to rise in email spam

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 12 October 2009 11:25 AM
Researchers point to Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! password exposures.
F-Secure encourages writing down passwords 

F-Secure encourages writing down passwords

In Networks - By Dan Raywood, 9 October 2009 11:06 AM
Hotmail breach exposes need for more complex passwords.
Password-stealing malware skyrocketing 

Password-stealing malware skyrocketing

In Applications - By Shaun Nichols, 28 September 2009 10:11 AM
Malware writers look for new ways to steal data.
New mass SQL injection attack infects 56,000 websites 

New mass SQL injection attack infects 56,000 websites

In Web/client - By Angela Moscaritolo, 25 August 2009 11:47 AM
Tens of thousands of websites have been compromised with a suite of malware containing backdoors, password stealers and downloaders, according to a security firm.
WordPress issues new version, closes password flaw 

WordPress issues new version, closes password flaw

In Applications - By Chuck Miller, 13 August 2009 11:27 AM
WordPress, the popular blogging software platform, has been updated to fix a flaw that could have enabled a hacker to change an administrator password.
eBay mandates developer password change 

eBay mandates developer password change

In Risk - By Chuck Miller, 12 August 2009 10:44 AM
The giant web marketplace site eBay has warned developers of a security vulnerability, and is compelling them to change their credentials immediately.
Malicious swine flu PDF file spreads password stealer 

Malicious swine flu PDF file spreads password stealer

In Applications - By Dan Raywood, 6 May 2009 10:23 AM
Symantec has reported that an email with a PDF attachment that promises to answer all questions about the swine flu virus contains a password stealer.
Facebook neutralises phishing attack 

Facebook neutralises phishing attack

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 1 May 2009 10:25 AM
Facebook is claiming to have put the brakes on a phishing wave that was trying to dupe members into divulging their login credentials.
Poor password practice putting users at risk 

Poor password practice putting users at risk

In Networks - 26 February 2009 10:51 AM
Internet users are still unwilling to sacrifice convenience to safeguard their online details, despite the growing amount of online fraud and other types of cyber crime, ...
Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat 

Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat

In Web/client - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 24 February 2009 11:20 AM
The top two threat families on Microsoft's detection and removal list this month are online game password stealers (PWS).
Computer users should have IT intervention when setting passwords 

Computer users should have IT intervention when setting passwords

In Networks - By SC Australia Staff, 20 February 2009 12:04 PM
Internet users are ‘seriously naïve' when it comes to setting passwords, according to Cyber-Ark.
Google improves password security 

Google improves password security

In Web/client - By David Neal, 19 January 2009 10:42 AM
Google has unveiled new administration tools designed to improve the use of passwords, in order to boost security for customers using its Google Apps hosted enterprise software ...
Phishers outwit Twitter users 

Phishers outwit Twitter users

In Risk - By Rosalie Marshall, 6 January 2009 9:30 AM
A large number of Twitter users have been temporarily locked out of their accounts as a phishing scam continues to attack the social messaging site.
Security issues present in browser password management 

Security issues present in browser password management

In Networks - By Angela Moscaritolo, 16 December 2008 10:03 AM
The password management features of most popular web browsers are riddled with bugs, new research concludes.
Hacker answered personal questions to steal Palin password 

Hacker answered personal questions to steal Palin password

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 19 September 2008 9:52 AM
The hacker who exposed portions of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email got her password by claiming to have 'forgotten' it.
Microsoft reports mass cleanup of gaming password stealers 

Microsoft reports mass cleanup of gaming password stealers

In Networks - By Dan Kaplan, 24 June 2008 8:47 AM
The latest Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has deleted online game password-stealing malware from some two million machines.
Free chocolate provides password bounty 

Free chocolate provides password bounty

In Networks - By Shaun Nichols, 18 April 2008 9:35 AM
Up to a fifth of UK PC users are willing to turn over their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar, according to a recent survey..
VeriSign pitches one-time password tool 

VeriSign pitches one-time password tool

In Networks - By Shaun Nichols, 9 April 2008 11:34 AM
On-demand password promises extra layer of protection.
French bank could have a thwarted US$7 billion insider fraud with better password 

French bank could have a thwarted US$7 billion insider fraud with better password

In Networks - By Jack Rogers, 29 January 2008 10:53 AM
Societe Generale might have been able to prevent a year-long binge of fraudulent transactions by one of its mid-level traders simply by instituting stricter password controls ...
Google used as password cracker 

Google used as password cracker

In Networks - By Clement James, 26 November 2007 9:45 AM
Researchers at Cambridge University's computer science department have used Google to help crack passwords obfuscated in the Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) format..
German entrepreneurs claim to solve the password problem 

German entrepreneurs claim to solve the password problem

In Networks - By Paul Fisher, 12 November 2007 10:04 AM
Forgotten and mislaid passwords could be a thing of the past. A German start-up claims its typing recognition system will solve the problems associated with traditional ...
Hackers turbocharge password cracks with nVidia card 

Hackers turbocharge password cracks with nVidia card

In Networks - By Robert Jaques, 30 October 2007 10:17 AM
NVidia's GeForce 8800 graphics card could be utilised to "dramatically" reduce the time needed by hackers to perform brute-force password cracks, security experts have warned.
Boffins tout 3-D facial recognition as password replacement 

Boffins tout 3-D facial recognition as password replacement

In Crypto - By Robert Jaques, 2 August 2007 9:41 AM
University of Houston team claims radically new approach to biometrics.
Password flaw hits Firefox and Safari 

Password flaw hits Firefox and Safari

In Networks - 26 July 2007 3:08 PM
The latest versions of Firefox and Safari contain a password management security flaw that could allow certain websites to access stored usernames and passwords.
US university changes passwords after attempted hacking 

US university changes passwords after attempted hacking

In Networks - By Frank Washkuch, 2 March 2007 12:36 AM
Texax University officials have asked nearly 100,000 network users to change passwords after hackers attempted to access university accounts.
Poor password practice leaves London City workers wide open 

Poor password practice leaves London City workers wide open

In Networks - By Ambrose McNevin, 25 October 2006 10:10 AM
Survey paints a grim picture.
Four of ten users have only one password 

Four of ten users have only one password

By René Millman, 26 April 2006 10:48 AM
Simple passwords are putting companies at risk, according to a new survey unveiled at the Infosec Europe 2006 show in London.
Password safety 'foreign' to most staff 

Password safety 'foreign' to most staff

By David Quainton, 9 June 2005 2:57 PM
Nearly half of all IT managers have major concerns about the level of password management within their company, a report has revealed.
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