TagsTagsForbes writer Daniel Kennedy has one of the best articles I've seen yet on the Gawker security mess, and Gawker Media's failure to deal with it adequately. Kennedy's piece supplies a lot more detail about the attack than other articles. The data breach was not limited to Gawker's user database; apparently ...
The Gawker network security breach is shaping up to be quite serious. PBS has a report with more details on the kind of information that was exposed when hackers (possibly from 4chan) broke into the Gawker database: Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies. Gawker Media, one ...
More than a million people's passwords might be at risk tonight, after the Gawker network was cracked wide open: Gawker hacked: Passwords of commenters compromised in ultimate security fail. If "Trust is the New Black," as Craig Newmark tweeted earlier this week, then Gawker just screwed the pooch. This kind ...
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, a colleague ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier