An acquaintance recently posed a practical question about security procedures to me and it may be useful as an example of risk analysis. “Howard” (not the real name) wrote: “I need some guidance on a ...

The hodgepodge of user names and passwords that federal employees must memorize to access computers and other services may become obsolete thanks to new governmentwide identification card requirements ...

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The peeps behind Kaspersky Labs’ Securelist blog have uncovered an Easter Egg in Safari, which they claim lists user IDs and passwords in plaintext. The problem relates to Safari’s retention of ...

Questions remain following revelations that plain-text files with user credentials for nearly 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was exposed on a publicly ...

PayPal’s top security official is on a quest to kill passwords. “Our intention is to really obliterate, within a certain number of years, both passwords and PINs and see the whole Internet—including ...

Widespread adoption of software as a service (SaaS) has brought powerful applications to small and midsize businesses at a reasonable cost. But using more and more of these apps involves an ...

The federal government’s use of user IDs and passwords for access to its applications could soon give way to more secure PKI-based credentials if more government entities follow the lead of the U.S.

Googling your own name might not be such a narcissistic activity after all; in fact, it just must save you from identity theft. At least that's what Kevin Andreyo, a Wilkes University professor, ...