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9 Popular Password Manager Apps Found Leaking Your Secrets
Is anything safe? It's 2017, and the likely answer is NO. Making sure your passwords are secure is one of the first line of defense – for your computer, email, and information – against hacking attempts, and Password Managers are the one recommended by many security experts to keep all your...
Best Free Password Manager Software You Can Download For 2018
When it comes to safeguarding your Internet security, installing an antivirus software or running a Secure Linux OS on your system does not mean you are safe enough from all kinds of cyber-threats. Today majority of Internet users are vulnerable to cyber attacks, not because they aren't using any...
Apple Patches 100+ Vulnerabilities in OS X, Safari, iOS
UPDATE Apple pushed out its latest operating system, El Capitan, yesterday, and while it boasts many security fixes, the update fails to address the outstanding vulnerability in Gatekeeper that came to light this week. The issue with Gatekeeper, as described yesterday by Patrick Wardle, the...
New Citadel Trojan Targets Your Password Managers
Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! Wai...
Citadel Variant Targets Password Managers
The Citadel Trojan has once again branched out beyond its roots as banking malware and is now targeting the master passwords guarding major password management products. Researchers from IBM Trusteer today said they’ve notified makers of the nexus Personal Security Client, Password Safe and KeePa...
Microsoft Passwords Research on Re-Use
Forget what you’ve been told about password re-use and weak credentials. If we’re to believe collaborating researchers from Microsoft and Carelton University, neither is such a bad idea. Flying in the face of conventional pleading from experts that “password” is a bad password, new research puts...
Passwords are Dead, Long Live Passwords
Passwords as a defensive measure are complete rubbish. There’s no two ways about that. The fact that high-value services such as online banking, corporate email and data storage use simple passwords as the only real security mechanism is a sad commentary on the state of defensive technologies. Bu...
security flaw
The 1 Password Manager in Mozilla Firefox 2.0, and 1.5.0.8 and earlier; and the 2 Passcard Manager in Netscape 8.1.2 and possibly other versions, do not properly verify that an ACTION URL in a FORM element containing a password INPUT element matches the web site for which the user stored a...