Admit it: You use the same password on too many sites. Admit this, too: You’re annoyed when sites ask for passwords that include not only letters and numbers but symbols and capital letters, too.
New Avast research* shows that 25% of connected users worldwide have never changed their passwords. Are you one of them? Our research also reveals that 83% of Americans use weak passwords that are easy to crack.
The internet is full of tips on how to keep your children safe online… but what about your parents? Many didn’t grow up with the internet, and reports often show that older users are more likely to fall victim to scams such as clicking on unsafe …
A hacker with the username “L&M” has infiltrated two GPS vehicle-tracking services, ProTrack and iTrack, gaining access to more than 27,000 accounts in South Africa, Morocco, India, the Philippines, and other countries. L&M could see customer d…
A hacker with the username “L&M” has infiltrated two GPS vehicle-tracking services, ProTrack and iTrack, gaining access to more than 27,000 accounts in South Africa, Morocco, India, the Philippines, and other countries. L&M could see customer d…
Facebook strikes again. In the latest security gaffe by the social media giant, over half a billion Facebook records have been found sitting in plain sight by third parties using Amazon’s cloud services. None of the cloud servers were password protecte…
Over 200 million Facebook passwords exposed internally
In a statement released today, Facebook divulged that some user passwords were being stored in readable format on certain internal data storage systems within the company. While the statement does…
As we look back at the year, it’s impossible not to acknowledge the rampant data breaches that caused such chaos for what seemed to be all 52 weeks of the year. The secret and sensitive data of literally hundreds of millions of people has been torn o…
Email remains the most common form of communication today. It’s also the unique identifier for many online account logins, which is the reason it’s still highly targeted by cybercriminals. Once hacked, it can lead to spamming your friends or, worse, …
If you’re following password best practices — and you are, right? — then you’ve got dozens of extra-long, extra-complex passwords to remember, and you’re using a unique one for each account — no repeats. (And we’ll add a hearty “Good job!” for t…