Boost Mobile is informing customers of a data breach nearly two months after it happened. “Boost.com experienced unauthorized online account activity in which an unauthorized person accessed your account through your Boost phone number and Boost.com PIN code,” said the notification. “The Boost Mobile fraud team discovered the incident and was able to implement a permanent solution to prevent similar unauthorized…
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Make a shape-shifting tablet with touchscreens that click together
Smartphones could one day have screens that can break apart and be put together in different shapes, forming physical passwords or game controllers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202534-make-a-shape-shifting-tablet-with-touchscreens-that-click-together/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Microsoft Moves Windows 10 Closer To A Future Without Passwords
“Microsoft has very quietly confirmed the death of Windows 10 passwords this week,” claims Forbes — though I think they may be overstating things a bit:
Microsoft’s crypto, identity and authentication team group manager, Yogesh Mehta, has made an announcement that he says puts “the 800 million people who use Windows 10 one step closer to a world without passwords….” Mehta confirmed…
ASU’s Dr. Partha Dasgupta on the Biggest Stories in Cryptography
Cryptography is an essential practice for our data-driven world. In this Q&A, Dr. Partha Dasgupta, an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) with experience at DARPA, shares some of his insights on the state of cryptography. For computer science students, the ASU Online Master of Computer Science (MCS) degree is an opportunity to learn […]
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When can we finally get rid of passwords?
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/24/18514225/passwords-fido2-authentication-webauthn-security-key-cybersecurity-online-browser-web…
More Than 23 Million People Use the Password ‘123456’
Bearhouse shares a new study from the UK’s “National Cyber Security Centre,” which advises the public on computer security, about the world’s most-frequently cracked passwords. It’s probably no surprise to the Slashdot readership: people use bad passwords. A recent study of publicly-available “hacked” accounts — by the UK National Cyber Security Centre — reveals “123456” was top, followed by the much…
Facebook Quietly Updates Last Month’s Security Disclosure To Add That ‘Millions’ of Instagram Users Are Also Impacted
Last month, Facebook disclosed that hundreds of millions of users on its platform had their account passwords stored in plain text — in some cases going back to 2012 — and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Today, the company quietly updated that blog post to reveal that Instagram users are also impacted. It said, in the update: Since this post…
Facebook ‘Unintentionally Uploaded’ Email Contacts From 1.5M Users
Facebook “unintentionally” harvested the email contacts of about 1.5 million of its users during the past three years. From a report: The activity came to light when a security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking users to enter their email passwords to verify their identities when signing up for an account, according to Business Insider, which previously reported on the practice….
US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning
An FBI agent admitted in a newly unsealed court document that the Department of Justice does not know whether Assange’s offer to help Manning came to fruition. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evy4ka/us-government-doesnt-know-if-assange-cracked-password-manning…