Google announced today that it’s the latest tech giant after Facebook and Twitter to have accidentally stored user passwords unprotected in plaintext. G Suite users, pay attention. “Our authentication systems operate with many layers of defense beyond the password, and we deploy numerous automatic systems that block malicious sign-in attempts even when the attacker knows …
In 2012, Wired‘s Matt Honan wrote about the disastrous consequences of tying your entire digital life to a string of letters, digits, and symbols. Honan is just one of countless people whose online accounts were hijacked after hackers discovered their passwords; the list of victims also contains high-profile tech executives, including Mark Zuckerberg. The need …
The social media platform Twitter has just asked all 300+ million users to reset their old passwords, due to an apparent exposure of user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text — without an ecrypted form of protection that would mask a Twitter user’s true password. In its company blog yesterday afternoon, …