Passwords

Social Shorts: Facebook introduces a new Messenger API for businesses, Instagram passwords exposed by social startup

This collection of social media marketing and new hire announcements is a compilation of the past week’s briefs from our daily Marketing Land newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get more news like this delivered to your inbox every morning. Instagram password leak. Social Captain, a social tech startup aimed at helping users boost Instagram followers, experienced […]

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Netflix to crack down on users who share passwords with friends and family

If you don’t have a Netflix account, you may be tempted to ask to borrow a friend or family member’s password. But this could soon land you in some serious trouble, as Netflix has revealed plans to crack down on users who password-share. Speaking at Netflix’s Q3 2019 earnings interview last week, chief product officer

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Canada Post notifies customers to change passwords, investigating 2017 incident

Canada Post is notifying customers it will reset passwords for online accounts while it investigates a report that “some customer information may have been compromised in 2017.” In an email to customers that was obtained by MobileSyrup, the company confirmed that “there has not been a cyberattack or breach of the Canada Post network,” but

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Forum cracks the vintage passwords of Ken Thompson and other Unix pioneers

Aurich Lawson / Getty As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating system. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it used what are, by today’s standards, strange, even ridiculous security. For one, the hashing function protecting passwords, though state of the art 40 years ago, is now trivial

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3 Reasons Why Killing Passwords Improves Your Cloud Security

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account getting hacked by having his telephone number transferred to another account without his knowledge is a wake-up call to everyone of how vulnerable mobile devices are. The hackers relied on SIM swapping and convincing Dorsey’s telecom provider to bypass requiring a passcode to modify his account. With the telephone number transferred,

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How to create a backup plan to restore passwords if your system fails

Password-management apps are a great way to ensure that you create unique, strong passwords for every service, app, or site at which you need one, and you don’t have to memorize any of them. However, what happens if you have a catastrophic failure, and can’t access your main computer? What if your backup drives are

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Hostinger Resets Passwords of All Its Clients in Response To Recent Security Breach

Hostinger, one of the fine web hosting platform for average customers, has reported unauthorized access into one of their servers in the midnight of 23rd August 2019. This incident was reported over their blog and immediately sent password reset links to their millions of clients via registered email addresses. Hostinger Data Breach The breach explained:

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Don’t be an idiot — here’s how to store and remember all your passwords

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you, like millions of other people, use the same password for just about every application you use, then I’m sorry to break it to you, but one of

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Hackers are actively trying to steal passwords from two widely used VPNs

Hackers are actively unleashing attacks that attempt to steal encryption keys, passwords, and other sensitive data from servers that have failed to apply critical fixes for two widely used virtual private network (VPN) products, researchers said. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending unpatched servers Web requests that contain a special sequence of characters, researchers

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