Apr 19
Heartbleed, the gaping flaw
Apr 04
Five-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel’s parents didn’t want him getting into the grown-up games on the family’s Xbox, so they put the gory stuff behind a password. But Kristoffer’s an inquisitive little guy, and he blew right past the parental safeguard—and discovered a pretty silly Xbox security flaw in the process.
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Mar 04
Don’t panic! Your Twitter account hasn’t been hacked, the password has just been accidentally reset.
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Feb 15
Uh oh, Kickstarter’s CEO Yancey Strickler says that the company has been hacked. No credit card info was stolen (whew!), but the company says users’ personal info has been compromised. Better go change your password.
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Feb 13
If you take a picture of a car or house key, could you use that picture to get a copy made? Yes—quite trivially, actually. I have a folder on my laptop that is filled with photos people have taken of their keys and put onto the internet. Every few weeks, I take some idle time and associate one of those keys to an address (lot of Googling, mostly) and then I decode the cuts in the key.
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Jan 27
Ever wondered if the site that you’re typing your credit card details in can really be trusted? Well, a new report reveals how well 1o0 top retail sites look after your details.
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Jan 21
You can’t use Touch ID for every iOS password situation (yet). You can, however, bypass iOS 7’s defaults so that Safari will remember your long, thoughtful, super-secure passwords and credit card info. You can even sync all that information across …
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Jan 20
You’d think that, by this point, people would start being a little more discerning with their passwords. You would be wrong. And here are the 25 most common (i.e. worst) passwords of 2013 to prove it.
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Dec 13
Last year, LinkedIn suffered the embarrassment of having millions of its users’ passwords stolen. So someone went and turned it into art. Of course they did.
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Dec 05
Got a super-secure password? Maybe you shouldn’t be so sure. Telepathwords can help you find out, and practically read your mind in the process.
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