Hacker Selling Over 1 Million Decrypted Gmail and Yahoo Passwords On Dark Web

Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, according to the recent news, login credentials and other...

Hardware Maker LaCie Admits Yearlong Data Breach

The French computer hardware company LaCie, perhaps best known for their external hard drives, announced this week it fell victim to a data breach that may have put at risk the sensitive information of anyone who has purchased a product off their website during the last year. According to an...

'Password' is No Longer the Worst Password

If you think you’re being clever by basing your password on the site you’re visiting or adding a zero to the end of 123456789, you’re not. A new list of the 25 worst passwords, culled from public dumps of passwords stolen in data breaches, shows that these are some of the least useful passwords y...

Facebook Requires Password Resets Related to Adobe

The tentacles of the massive Adobe breach, called one of the worst in U.S. history by one security expert, have reached Facebook users, specifically those who used the same email and password combination for the social network as well as Adobe. A Facebook representative confirmed to Threatpost...