On Dec. 4, U.S. intelligence officials and the FBI announced a hacking campaign affecting at least eight U.S. telecommunication firms, including Verizon and AT&T. In response, the Cybersecurity and ...

Android smartphones, like other phones, send text messages in plain text. The text messages can be intercepted and read on the network. The text messages could also be read by anyone with access to ...

IT guru Bob Gendler took to Medium last week to share a startling discovery about Apple Mail. If you have the application configured to send and receive encrypted email—messages that should be ...

There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse . By ...

The researchers themselves used an off-the-shelf, unmodified satellite dish they bought for a couple hundred bucks and, to ...

On Tuesday, Google revealed a bug that left G Suite users' passwords stored in plain text for the last 14 years. For the uninitiated, passwords aren't supposed to be stored in that format, as doing so ...

Facebook isn't the only big tech company found to be storing passwords in plain text. Google has warned G Suite users that an "error" in a password recovery implementation left some of their passwords ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. By storing passwords in ...

The Windows operating system will be getting support for an encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) option, Microsoft announced this week, adding greater privacy protections for Internet connections. In ...

San Francisco – Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of its users’ passwords in plain text for years. The acknowledgement from the social media giant came after a security researcher posted ...