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Online daters beware: credentials for dating websites – including Match.com, Christian Mingle, PlentyOfFish, eHarmony, Zoosk, Lavalife and SeniorPeopleMeet – are being targeted in a massive campaign that makes use of a phishing kit featuring hundreds of fraudulent PHP scripts.Although the operation ...

Online daters might have to worry about more than just their hearts being stolen this Valentine's Day, after HP research showed that more than 90 percent of popular dating mobile apps it scanned sent out sensitive information, including purchasing information, unencrypted from phones.According to Pe...

After a massive breach impacted more than 50 million of its customers, the daily-deal website LivingSocial has updated its password encryption method to bolster security. On Friday, the company confirmed that its computer systems were hacked, resulting in “unauthorized access” to customer data store...

Popular notetaking software service Evernote has reset the passwords for all of its users following a network breach.The company advised its 50 million users on Saturday that it "detected and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to acces...

This year has been marked by an ever-growing list of companies falling victim to stolen passwords. In June, millions of password hashes were disclosed from LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. And in July, more than 400,000 usernames and passwords were stolen from Yahoo, while the social networking site...

After talking to her office-working brother, my hairdresser the other day was extolling the benefits of using numbers, capital letters and other characters to create the various passwords she enlists to access countless private accounts daily. Up until that impromptu conversation during an Independe...

As of late, it seems as though a data breach takes place on a daily basis. After major attacks on websites like Yahoo, LinkedIn, and eHarmony, millions have passwords have been compromised, leaving sensitive personal information vulnerable. Proper encryption methods must be in place in order to furt...

Yahoo on Thursday confirmed that its database was hacked to steal about 400,000 usernames and passwords of members who belong to the company's Contributor Network, which formerly was known as Associated Content.Yahoo said the theft of the file occurred on Wednesday, but fewer than five percent of th...

»The Flame virus reignited conversations around cyber war. Flame, which spread by disguising itself as a Windows update and exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, was a heavily coded espionage toolkit – meaning it was designed to steal information, mostly from computers in Iran, and not sabotage anyth...

The recent attacks that leaked millions of passwords from LinkedIn and eHarmony accounts is almost becoming a daily news event for those of us who monitor the security field.  YADAB! (Yet Another Data Breach!) might become a new buzzword.    We have conversations ranging from thr...