Facebook has been storing million of passwords on its own servers without encryption and easily accessible to thousands of well-meaning Facebook employees.
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Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in plain text, making them available to some 20,000 employees, writes KrebsOnSecurity following a tip from a source at Facebook. According to Brian Krebs, Facebook is […]

Orange County in North Carolina suffered its third ransomware infection in six years, the local government announced on its website on Monday. The attack, probably stemming from a phishing email, a very common practice in such situations, crippled the county’s IT infrastructure and left a number of departments struggling with operations. The attack, detected on […]

It’s not a World Wide Web any more, Will you settle for a RWW — a Regional Watching Web? It’s a smaller world out there, if you’re OK with that.
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Google was fined almost €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) by the European Commission for an antitrust violation, the legislative body announced. Labeled as “outright prohibition,” Google was fined for abusive practices regarding competition policy, the third fine it has received over a two-year span. The case was identified in 2016 and Google has since been cooperating […]

“Has my Instagram account been hacked?” is a question you’re likely to not ask until after the fact.
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Over a third of government employees clicked on a phishing email sent around to test their reactions. Real security starts between the headphones.
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After getting fired from his job as a director of infrastructure services, a Statesville (NC) man decided to try an extort his employers by threatening to release customers’ private information to the mainstream. Court papers don’t mention the name of the company where Matthew Moebius worked for, but they do say he worked there for […]