by Cameron Camp Security Researcher If the scary email or app notification–and subsequent webpage–is to be believed, you have only a few days to verify your Facebook account or you’ll be out of luck. But don’t worry, a few days later you will magically get a few more...
by Randy Abrams – Security Consultant LastPass has put up a web page for users to check to see if their LinkedIn password was one of the ones whose has was leaked. As you know if you read my blog “Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber”, I don’t think...
by David Harley Senior Research Fellow At a time when password breaches like the one at LinkedIn are once more making the news, there’s plenty of good advice around about how to select a strong password as opposed to the sort of stereotyped...
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher This morning when I logged into LinkedIn I was greeted with several front page references to the reported hacking of the site, and instructions for changing my password, which I did immediately. This is a good time to change all of...
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher We read in the New York Times that Google is rolling out a service that will attempt to alert users when it thinks their accounts might be subject to hacking by a government, hoping the user will take precautions after getting a...
So today we reported that linkedIn was the subject of a hack that got an estimated 6.4 million password into the hands of some bad-actors – there was speculation in the article that these people maybe didn’t have access to email addresses to go with these...