Many password strength meters are downright WEAK, say researchers
Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s …
What, me worry? Despite Snowden leaks, Americans’ use of the ‘Net largely unchanged
Don’t worry, be happy. That seems to be the attitude most Americans have toward widespread government snooping on their Internet activities. Numerous leaks illuminating …
Why Yahoo’s new on-demand password system is no two-factor authentication killer
In an effort to simplify authentication for its services, Yahoo has introduced a new mechanism that allows users to log in with temporary passwords …
Chinese gay dating app grows to 15 million users
By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to …
Number of websites explodes past a billion (and counting)
The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace, according to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet …
Dropbox Fights New Data Grab
On Thursday, approximately 1,500 pages of court documents were released, which showed how federal officials had forced American technology companies to partake in the …
U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data
The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over …
Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double ‘every week’
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according …
Facebook’s government request report adds Instagram — duck face and all
Facebook on Friday released its second government requests report covering the second half of 2013, and it expands its scope from the first one …
Yahoo Issues Security Sitrep
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