If you thought that my May 23 report, confirming the leak of login data totaling an astonishing 184 million compromised credentials, was frightening, I hope you are sitting down now. Researchers have just confirmed what is also certainly the largest data breach ever, with an almost incredulous 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, exposed. As
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In a brief but essential August 23 posting to the official Google Workspace updates feed, Gmail users have been advised to set up two-factor verification now . The advice comes as Google starts rolling out a new critical security alert system to help protect account holders when “sensitive actions” are taken that impact their Gmail
Reddit, the social news and discussion site with 50 million daily users, has confirmed that it has been hacked . In a February 9 security incident posting on the site itself, Reddit said it first became aware of the successful breach of its systems late on February 5. In what it refers to as a
November 27 Update below. This post was originally published on November 25 If you are thinking about leaving Twitter, deleting your account could be a very dangerous move that enables criminals, scammers, trolls, and more to use your good name to spread disinformation, misinformation, or commit fraud. Nobody expected the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter…