Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
There's a new web authentication method being proposed by Steve Gibson over at grc.com and initially it looks really good and does seem to solve most, if not all, of the current security/privacy problems we have with traditional username/password authentication.
In a nutshell, website login pages will display a QR code ...
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Windows 8.1 will have a couple of tricks up its sleeve for people who use fingerprint readers.
One of Monday's sessions at Microsoft's TechEd conference highlighted the support that Windows 8.1 will offer for fingerprint recognition, as described by The Verge. Prior versions of Windows handled fingerprint readers through third-party software. But Windows ...
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Even passwords considered “strong” by IT departments are often now vulnerable to hacking, according to professional services firm Deloitte. In Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions 2013, the firm predicts that 90% of user generated passwords will be vulnerable to hacking this year.
Deloitte says that the weakness inherent in current password ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Dropbox is a hugely popular cloud storage service beloved by many. Unfortunately, it’s had a history of security problems, ranging from compromised accounts to once allowing access to every Dropbox account without requiring a password for several hours. If you’re using Dropbox, there are a variety of ways you ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
Intrusions on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster were detected on Nov. 11, the FreeBSD security team said Saturday. "The affected machines were taken offline for analysis. Additionally, a large portion of the remaining infrastructure machines were also taken offline as a precaution," said a message on the project's public ...
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