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Social Media Roundup: Google+ Data Removal Reminder, Gaming Tab On Facebook App, Instagram Checkout

This app will have more features than the Facebook Gaming tab. Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text This past week, Krebs on Security published a report about how Facebook stored hundreds of millions ... read more

Facebook admits to inadvertently storing 'hundreds of millions' of user passwords in plain text on company servers

The news was first reported by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs on his blog, Krebs on Security, before Facebook issued its statement. Although the company did not disclose how long the ... read more

IoT Security - Anatomy of IoT cyber attacks

The attack came in the form of a botnet that generated a massive DDOS storm. High-profile targets included Krebs on Security, a popular internet security blog, Dyn, a very popular and widely used DNS ... read more

NPC: FB’s risky password storage ‘not a security incident’

The account passwords of 200 million to 600 million users were “stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees,” according to cybersecurity blog “Krebs on Security ... read more

Facebook stored 'hundreds of millions' of unencrypted passwords on internal servers

The data accumulated as a result of apps built by Facebook staff, said Krebs on Security, citing an anonymous senior Facebook employee. As many as 200 million to 600 million accounts may have been ... read more

Up to 600 million passwords were left visible to Facebook employees in security lapse

The incident was first revealed by the Krebs on Security blog, which estimated the total number of affected users ranged between 200 million and 600 million - though Facebook declined Thursday to ... read more

Facebook accepts exposing millions of user passwords in a plain text to its employees after security researcher publishes findings

Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity.” In a statement to Krebs on Security, a senior Facebook employee told that around 600 million ... read more

FBI warns about potential ATM hacking scheme

Krebs on Security-- a blog run by cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs -- first broke the story on Sunday. Krebs reported that “cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global ... read more

Krebs on Security

Now it’s official. The particular website that was hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that we covered a few days ago was that of white-hat security journalist [Brian ... read more

Millions of email addresses exposed online, according to Australian security researcher

... in a series of data breaches publicized by security researcher Troy Hunt and independently verified by security researchers at Krebs on Security. Hunt said this large collection of files, which ... read more

Krebs on Security

For companies, this principle means accepting the notion that it is no longer possible to keep the bad guys out of your networks entirely. This doesn’t mean abandoning all tenets of traditional ... read more