Yahoo probing 400,000 users’ emails, passwords online hacking

Last Updated: Friday, July 13, 2012, 11:09

Internet firm Yahoo is probing an apparent security breach that led to over 450,000 login names and passwords being leaked online.

LinkedIn accepts security breach, asks users to change password

Last Updated: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 22:51

Reports had suggested that about 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords were hacked and posted on the Web and LinkedIn was investigating the matter.

LinkedIn hit by hackers; leak passwords

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 23:12

A hackers group sent an encryption-based file on a Russian forum. The social networking site has asked hackers to assist with decrypting it.

LinkedIn probes theft of 6.5 mn passwords

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 22:04

Professional networking website LinkedIn said it was investigating claims that 6.5 million of its users` passwords have been stolen and published on a Russian computer hacking forum.

Cambridge study says passwords are very insecure

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 14:21

Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses.

Probe requests for Facebook passwords: Senators ask feds

Last Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 18:14

Two US senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday.

Facebook to employers: Don't demand passwords

Last Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 09:11

Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities.

Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 00:15

Job seeker was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

Passwords could soon be obsolete

Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012, 19:00

DARPA’s purpose is to sponsor “revolutionary, high-payoff research” for military use.

Change ATM passwords regularly to keep fraudsters away

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 23:28

Are you using your birthday or wedding date as PIN or password in ATM, debit and credit cards or have them written those behind them? If so, it's not the wisest thing you could do to keep banking fraudsters at bay, say experts.

E-mail passwords of US, UK officials posted online

Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 13:23

The hackers gained unauthorised access over Christmas to the account information of an American security firm Stratfor.

Mind reading, biometric passwords may be reality

Last Updated: Friday, December 23, 2011, 18:56

Imagine a world where you don`t have to pay power bills because you are able to create energy for your requirements, or you can read the mind of the person sitting next to you.