Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
For the past half year Netgear has been working on fixing a serious and easy-to-exploit vulnerability in many of its routers. And it's still not done.
While Netgear has worked to fix the issue, the list of affected router models increased to 30, of which only 20 have firmware fixes available ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks. In its usual form, it estimates how many trials an attacker who does not have direct access to the password would need, on average, to guess it correctly. The strength of a password ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
It seems that password security simply doesn't work.
Many of us rely on simple, easy-to-remember strings of characters and letters, including strings found on your keyboard such as "1234567" or "qwertyu."
While these strings are easy for you to remember, they are also no trouble at all for attackers to brute-force hacking ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
Updated TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked.
In the past 24 hours, we've seen a spike in complaints from people who say their PCs, Macs and servers were taken over via ...
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Saturday, May 14th, 2016
When Microsoft announced Windows 10, it added a feature called Wi-Fi Sense that had previously debuted on the Windows Phone operating system. Wi-Fi Sense was a password-sharing option that allowed you to share Wi-Fi passwords with your friends and contacts in Skype, Outlook, and Facebook. Here’s how Microsoft described the ...
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