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UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson's BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson's BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

October 11, 2019Mohit Kumar
A 39-year-old password of Ken Thompson , the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD...
Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach

September 04, 2017Mohit Kumar
Exclusive — If you have an account on Taringa , also known as "The Latin American Reddit," your account details may have compro...
How to Hack Apple Mac Encryption Password in Just 30 Seconds

How to Hack Apple Mac Encryption Password in Just 30 Seconds

December 16, 2016Swati Khandelwal
Macintosh computers are often considered to be safer than those running Windows operating system, but a recently discovered attack techni...
Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

December 15, 2016Swati Khandelwal
Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed t...
Facebook Buys Leaked Passwords From Black Market, But Do You Know Why?

Facebook Buys Leaked Passwords From Black Market, But Do You Know Why?

November 10, 2016Mohit Kumar
Facebook is reportedly buying stolen passwords that hackers are selling on the underground black market in an effort to keep its users&#...
You Wouldn't Believe that Too Many People Still Use Terrible Passwords

You Wouldn't Believe that Too Many People Still Use Terrible Passwords

January 21, 2016Wang Wei
Some things online can never change like -- Terrible Passwords by Humans . When it's about various security measures to be taken...
Unpatched Mac OS X Zero-day Bug Allows Root Access Without Password

Unpatched Mac OS X Zero-day Bug Allows Root Access Without Password

August 04, 2015Swati Khandelwal
Hackers have their hands on something of your concern. A severe zero-day vulnerability in the latest, fully patched version of Apple'...
Do You also want to Hack Facebook Account of your Girlfriend?

Do You also want to Hack Facebook Account of your Girlfriend?

June 13, 2015Mohit Kumar
We at The Hacker News get a lot of requests via emails and messages from people who want to hack into someone else's Facebook account o...
Unbreakable Encryption inspired by Human Biology

Unbreakable Encryption inspired by Human Biology

April 08, 2014Swati Khandelwal
When we talk about security, only one thing cames to our mind – ENCRYPTION . Encryption of our online messages, encryption of our emails...
'123456' giving tough competition to 'password' in Worst 25 Passwords of 2013

'123456' giving tough competition to 'password' in Worst 25 Passwords of 2013

January 21, 2014Swati Khandelwal
123456, password, 12345678, qwerty… or abc123 , How many of you have your password one of these??? I think quite a many of you. Even...
Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

November 21, 2013Wang Wei
Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a massive Password Brute-Force attack that successfully compro...
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