Comcast says it wasn’t hacked, but hundreds of thousands of its customers may have been, forcing the cable giant to reset passwords to email accounts of about 200,000 customers. The forced password reset came after an independent security researcher spotted an ad on a Dark Web marketplace offering 590,000 Comcast subscriber email addresses and plaintext passwords for $1000...

Forum owners and users beware! The website of popular forum software maker vBulletin has been breached. Following claims, nay, boasts, of an attack on Sunday evening, the software developer moved quickly to negate the effects of the hack by releasing a series of security patches on Monday, saying: A security issue has been reported to...

There’s another data breach to report – and it’s a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the “free” web hosting company 000Webhost. The breached data, which includes customer names, emails and plaintext passwords (in other words, the passwords weren’t securely stored), has reportedly been put up for sale on underground markets. What’s worse,...

According to the BBC, UK energy provider British Gas has just contacted 2200 customers to warn them that their passwords may have been exposed. Apparently, the email addresses and passwords of affected users showed up on popular data dumping site Pastebin. If the passwords were valid, crooks who downloaded the dumped password data would almost...

Quiz time: You’re waiting for your train. You spot a flash drive on a bench. Do you: Pick it up and stick it into a device? Forensics the living daylights out of it to find the owner, opening text files stored on the drive, clicking on links, and/or sending messages to any email addresses you...

Last week, we wrote a handy article in our new What is… series about Virtual Private Networks. This week, we’re looking at the IoT, or Internet of Things. We decided on the Internet of Things because week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) urged us to be #CyberAware about our Evolving Digital Lives. And those...

Move over, Naked Security’s video on how to Pick a Proper Password! Step aside, XKCD’s harder-than-you-think Correct­Horse­Something­Something. There’s a new sort of password in town: the iambic tetrameter. In a word, poetry. To explain: an iambus is a rhythmic unit in verse that consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one. Like this:...

It’s Week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), and this week’s #CyberAware theme is Your Evolving Digital Life. As the CSAM organisers put it, the idea is to highlight: The "smart world" we live in and the importance of educating all citizens on cybersecurity as more and more of the devices we use – from...