What it Means to “Own” Your Online Credentials
Googling “What are online credentials?” is quite like taking a shot in the dark. Results may differ across the likes of “banking credentials”, or “one’s online username and password”. Although these versions are also correct, they only cover the very basics of online credentials. In a more expansive and elaborative sense, online credentials pertain to a user’s online behavioural patterns, looking at how they use an app, analysing different aspects such as how many hours they spend on certain features, which aspects of the app they use most, and so much more. What Are Online....
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The pony/CoinThief Botnet stole 700,000 online credentials and heisted $220,000 from online cryptocurrency wallets. Reports of Apple's urgent promises to fix a bug that allows intruders to spy on financial, email, and other personal data in OSX have been in the media since last week. Now researchers have identified the Pony Trojan, which, as coincidence would have it, is known to have spied on financial, email and other personal data via web forms. In the process, Pony heisted more than 700,000 online account credentials, as well as stealing $220,000 from online cryptocoin wallets. notice:....
LastPass, the secure password manager, and vault service has announced Bitcoin support! The announcement was recently made on the company’s twitter channel. However, the exact timeline for Bitcoin support is not yet known. We have so many online services out there meant to make our lives easy. They do, up to a certain extent except for the login process which requires passwords. With concerns about the security, creating strong passwords as per the platforms specification itself is a hard task, let alone trying to remember them all. The sheer number of login credentials one has to maintain....
The use cases of blockchain technology have been touted many times, and various education facilities are using this concept to record and verify student credentials. Adding this new layer of transparency will help employers check candidate credentials in the future. It may come as a surprise to learn that various educational institutions are actively....
Online wallets, offline cold storage, exchange login credentials, email... our list of logins to essential services seems to grow longer every few months. At the same time authentication vulnerabilities and attacks proliferate, and the growing amount of computing power and human endevour dedicated to stealing online credentials is staggering. Realistically, it's not a case of if, but when - and the hour of it unknown. Here's how you can obscure the most critical information revealed by your stolen password - the formula to all your other passwords. This series of articles is an attempt to....
Hundreds of thousands of computers have reportedly been affected by malware called 'Pony', which is allowing attackers to steal bitcoin and a slew of other digital currencies. The news was reported by a security firm called Trustwave, who notes that somewhere on the order of 85 digital wallets have been stolen - translating to about $200,000. "It is the first time we saw such a widespread presence of this type of malware. It was on hundreds of thousands of machines," Ziv Mador of the company said. It's unclear who exactly is behind the malware, but Trustwave has reason to believe the....