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Apple said that macOS’ native Gatekeeper security feature would protect against a Keychain attack disclosed this week, but researcher Patrick Wardle said that won’t help against Mac malware signed with an Apple certificate.
Researcher Patrick Wardle has discovered a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to dump passwords in plaintext from the macOS Keychain. The vulnerability is in macOS High Sierra, Sierra and El Capitan, and has yet to be patched.
10 November 2015 - 15:49,
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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...
29 October 2015 - 23:01,
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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,...