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Twitter Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late?

A posting from Information week in there security section:  Can you feel the two-factor fever? Following in the footsteps of Microsoft this month, Apple in March, and Facebook and Google before them,Twitter is now testing a two-factor authentication system to make it more difficult for attackers to hijack people’s accounts. That’s welcome news in the wake of […]

50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial “special offers” site hacked

A posting from Naked Security about 50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial “special offers” site hacked: LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach. That’s right: another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of […]

Twitter Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late?

A posting from Information week in there security section:  Can you feel the two-factor fever? Following in the footsteps of Microsoft this month, Apple in March, and Facebook and Google before them,Twitter is now testing a two-factor authentication system to make it more difficult for attackers to hijack people’s accounts. That’s welcome news in the wake of […]

50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial “special offers” site hacked

A posting from Naked Security about 50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial “special offers” site hacked: LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach. That’s right: another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of […]