Hack
Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web

A posting from naked security titled " Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web"  by Lisa Vaas emember those cracked Uber accounts that were selling for as little as $1 on the dark web a few months ago? Well, welcome to the Midsummer Madness Sale: prices have been slashed, and now, they're going […]

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General Security
LinkedIn flips the two-factor authentication switch

A posting from Naked Security on LinkedIn authentication:  Happy anniversary of getting the bejeezus hacked out of you, LinkedIn! Maybe the timing is just a coincidence, but the career-toned social networking site got savagely hacked on 5 June 2012. Cybercrooks stole about 6.5 million passwords, over 60% of which were cracked within the span of […]

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Vulnerability
Not good enough, Oracle - promises to secure Java are too little, too late

An interesting article from Naked security: Oracle has promised to work harder to make Java more secure. Given the constant flood of high-profile, heavily-exploited vulnerabilities, are Oracle's new ideas going to be enough to save this piece of software from drowning in bad vibes? In a lengthy blog post last week, the head of Java […]

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