Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in…
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Zombie email rises from grave after eight years of radio silence
In a novel twist on “What happens to our accounts when we die,” we have “what happens to our abandoned accounts…
Collection 1 data breach: what you need to know
Yesterday, news broke that the largest data dump in history had been discovered, with more than 770 million people’s Personally Identifiable Information…
A week in security (January 7 – 13)
Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the Ryuk ransomware attack causing trouble over the holidays,…
A week in security (December 10 – 16)
Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the…
Is FIDO the future instrument to prove our identity?
FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, is an industry consortium started in 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong…
Twitter security snafu: change your passwords
If you’re logging into Twitter after having been AWOL for a day or two, you’ll likely be seeing one of these…
Why you don’t need 27 different passwords
Passwords. The bane of modern existence. To celebrate this nuisance, the holiday gods have given us World Password Day, where thousands…
A week in security (Feb 20th – Feb 27th)
Last week in the world of security, we had rogue chrome extensions teaming up with tech support scams, tips on how…
Understanding the basics of two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is the least complex version of multi-factor authorization (MFA) and was invented to add an extra layer of…