Debian developers are recommending that the Cryptkeeper Linux encryption app be pulled from the distribution after a universal password was found.

Yahoo has forced a password reset on Tumblr account holders after it discovered that someone had accessed email addresses, and salted and hashed passwords from early 2013. A Tumblr spokesperson would not disclose who had accessed the data, where it was found, nor how many email addresses were impacted and how many of those are...

Roughly 320,000 Time Warner Cable customers are being told to change their email passwords this week after the company announced Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to them. The move comes after the F.B.I. notified the telecommunications giant that someone may have gained access to TWC customer information. It’s still unclear exactly how someone may have...

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode representative said late Tuesday its executives were unavailable for comment and that...