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Millions of Facebook Passwords Kept in Plain Text for Employees to Access

22

Mar

2019

Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in plain text, making them available to some 20,000 employees, writes KrebsOnSecurity following a tip from a source at Facebook. According to Brian Krebs, Facebook is […]

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Facebook logins aren’t being properly protected on iPhones, iPads and Android devices

05

Apr

2012

It’s not really news to discover that developers who write games for Apple devices running iOS – namely the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – have tended to save unencrypted user settings in plain text.The idea of somebody tinkering with those text files is worrisome to those who fret about cheating in iPhone or iPad […]

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Linux world in security spinout as Linux Foundation and Kernel.org remain “temporarily unavailable”

12

Sep

2011

The Linux world is in a bit of a security spinout at the moment. Last month, the brains behind the Linux kernel discovered malware on the PC of at least one kernel maintainer, as well as on some of the kernel.org servers themselves. Now, the Linux Foundation, a not-for-profit which bankrolls the main developers of […]

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Millions of Facebook Passwords Kept in Plain Text for Employees to Access

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