Enlarge Getty Images Q Link Wireless, a provider of low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million US-based customers, has been making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid phone number on the carrier’s network, an analysis of the company’s account management app shows. Dania, Florida-based Q Link Wireless is what’s […]
Dropbox is about to launch a free password manager , a service that helps you sign into online sites and services hassle-free. Dropbox’s announcement came on Tuesday, March 16 — the very same day that LastPass placed some restrictions on the free version of its own password manager that mean some users will have to […]
Enlarge Getty Images / Leon Justice The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported. The computer intrusion happened last Friday in Oldsmar, a Florida city […]
Dutch prosecutors confirmed Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was indeed hacked by a so-called “ethical hacker” who didn’t have to work too hard to guess Trump’s password: “maga2020!” Victor Gevers, a Dutch security expert, cooperated with investigators from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service in November and freely released information and screenshots pertaining to the […]
Enlarge / Not a board game, a security tool. DiceKeys Modern cybersecurity, done with properly paranoid best practices, requires meeting some tough demands: Carry a physical two-factor key to plug in and authenticate yourself on a new computer, but if you lose or break that tiny piece of plastic you could be locked out of […]
Dropbox is expanding its line of cloud services with a new password manager. The company has (via AndroidPolice) quietly listed a new app titled Dropbox Passwords on the Android Play Store that lets you host your private credentials and sign into websites. Based on the limited details available on the app’s Play Store page, Dropbox […]
To increase your security online, you should start with updating your email password on a regular basis. For many people, doing so may mean changing a Gmail password. Do you know how to change your Gmail password? If not, don’t worry. We’ll show you how to do it. Just follow our step-by-step guide below. Related […]
In this digital age, few things are as important as keeping your information protected. One of the first steps to securing your information is storing it in a password-protected folder. Unfortunately, neither Windows nor MacOS offers this protection as a standard. In this guide, we are going to help you safeguard your sensitive data through […]
Global PR In light of the many recent hacks and breaches that have made headlines over the past few years, it is more important than ever to have strong passwords for your email accounts. Failing to properly secure your email can lead to your info being shared and sold on the Dark Web, including your […]
Negative Space/Pexels Two recent supply-chain attacks have allowed hackers to collect the payment info and user passwords of more than 4,600 websites. According to ZDNet, the supply-chain attacks were spotted by Twitter user and Sanguine Security forensic analyst Willem de Groot and were still considered ongoing as of Sunday, May 12. The attacks involved the breaching […]
For many years, Microsoft has published a security baseline configuration: a set of system policies that are a reasonable default for a typical organization. This configuration may be sufficient for some companies, and it represents a good starting point for those corporations that need something stricter. While most of the settings have been unproblematic, one […]
A man has been jailed for sending a “potentially lethal homemade bomb” to a Bitcoin firm in London – after it refused to reset his password for him. The Met Police, which investigated the case, said detectives could “only identify one possible reason” for the Swedish national’s actions. He had emailed the company, Cryptopay, in […]
PDFs are the closest thing the internet has to a paper document. They’re standard, they look the same on every system regardless of what fonts you have installed, and they typically aren’t something users can edit. But if you want to keep them secure, then you need to know how to password protect a PDF. Fortunately, PDFs have […]
Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser’s 10-year anniversary. The release includes a new design, more powerful omnibox, updated password manager, more accurate autofill, plenty of developer-specific changes, and a slew of security improvements. You can update to the latest version now […]