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Complex Password Cracking About to Get Faster

The prevailing wisdom is that longer, more complex passwords and passphrases are more difficult to crack and are more secure for users. While complex...

NASDAQ Halt: System Glitch or Hack?

In our modern world, where we're all hyper-sensitive to the relentless onslaught of cyber-attacks, any time a major site, service or piece of infrastructure...

Apple, Facebook Hackers Get Their ‘Just’ Reward (or Do They?)

If someone doesn't play by the rules and still wins, should he be rewarded? That's a question that the information security industry is now...

Groklaw, NSA and Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

Earlier this month, a pair of private email services shut down over fears that they could not guarantee user privacy in the wake of...

Open-Source PHP Gets Updates for Stability, Security

The open-source PHP language is one of the most widely deployed technologies on the Web today, powering millions of Websites (including eWEEK). This past...

Was ‘The New York Times’ Hacked?

On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, my Twitter feed was overflowing with people noting that the venerable Gray Lady, The New York Times,...

Scroogled Redux: Google, Gmail, Privacy and You

Tens of millions of users around the world rely on Google's Gmail service as their email provider, but a recent legal filing from the...

Google Bug Bounty Increases Security for Us All

Over the last three years, Google has paid out over $2 million as part of its Chromium and Google Web Vulnerability Programs. In my...

Pirate Bay Builds Its Own Browser Bundle

For the last 10 years, the Pirate Bay Torrent search site has thumbed its nose at legal authorities around the world, making copyright-protected applications,...

Mozilla Expands Persona ID Service

Single sign-on (SSO) mechanisms offer the promise of users having a single credential (the sign-on) in order to log into multiple sites and services....