Scanning Twitter for responses to the Zappos breach, we have a few favourites that are awfully telling: From @jjmartucci: I bet 99% of the stolen Zappos passwords were “shoes”. // Fact: most passwords are frighteningly easy to guess. We bet that those passwords aren’t “shoes” at all, but rather “password”, “abc123″ and others from the [...]

Zappos has remained tight-lipped about the nature of their data breach this week. As many as 24 million consumer accounts may have been accessed through an attack on their server in Kentucky. That is as detailed as they’re willing to go. Full credit card numbers were not stolen, since those were stored separately. It would [...]

These days it seems that while hackers evolve with trends in technology, the general computer user is no more identity savvy than he was before Facebook made identities a virtual open book. Data breaches, hacks, and attempted hacks are in the news regularly, and yet Joe Consumer still uses “password” or “password1″ for all his [...]

Several researchers the University of Michigan have succeeded in cracking  the RSA security technology which protects all ecommerce and online banking transactions. The university scientists found that they could deduce tiny pieces of a private key by injecting slight fluctuations in a device’s power supply as it was processing encrypted messages. In a little more [...]