Posted on 07 June 2012 by
Another major breach was announced in our social media world today. This time LinkedIn was the target and more than six million users are the potential victims. A Russian hacker claims the theft of 6,458,020 encrypted LinkedIn passwords and to prove it, posted the passwords on his website (thankfully without usernames). In addition, he asked […]
Posted on 08 June 2012 by
Earlier this week, amidst reports that more than 6.5 million passwords may have been compromised in a hack of a LinkedIn database, I received several calls and emails from friends and family that feared the worst of their LinkedIn accounts, especially after LinkedIn’s Vicente Silveira took to the company’s blog to confirm the reports. Silveira […]
Posted on 16 July 2012 by
After the LinkedIn debacle, it’s depressing but not entirely surprising to see yet further reports of large-scale hacks, this time of Yahoo! losing 400,000 usernames and passwords to anonymous hackers. It seems amazing to us, working as we do in the security industry, that the passwords were stored in plaintext with absolutely no form of […]
Posted on 30 August 2012 by
Today the Gemalto Enterprise blog celebrates its first anniversary. Since the birth of the Enterprise Blog on August 30th 2011, we’ve given our view on many of the biggest stories in the world of enterprise security and authentication. These have included everything from passwords to privacy, and Google to Genesis. Having shared so many of […]
Posted on 20 February 2014 by
Here’s a familiar scenario: I hear about a great website/service that interests me. It’s free, but I have to create an account to use the service. I’m not sure I’m going to keep using the service, so I hesitate to set up an account. Then I notice that I can login using my LinkedIn profile, […]
Posted on 22 July 2014 by
Seeing little red notification circles on a host of different apps on your phone can be a dizzying experience. Whereas consumers once had only SMS text messages and phone calls to worry about, the proliferation of smartphones has given us more streams of communication to deal with than ever before. Got a message on your […]
