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Like many online companies, Twitter uses a hashing protocol to ensure that user passwords are masked when they hit servers, protecting them from potential prying eyes. Unfortunately, a bug has been disrupting this process for “several months” and has resulted in Twitter advising that all 336 million users should change …

Intel has teamed up with Microsoft to offer multi-factor authentication for its password manager system, making website logins and saved details safer than ever before. To leverage it, users can download the Intel True Key extension for Microsoft Edge and then use their face or thumb print to login to …

Someone has figured out how to manipulate the food delivery app, Deliveroo, to charge users for all sorts of food items, even if it's not delivered to them. Several users have reported having bills of £100 or more for food that was delivered to a number of different locations, but …

The FBI has been trying to force Apple to do something it doesn't want to for the past few months and now the shoe is on the other foot. Following the FBI calling off its legal demands and announcing it had used a third party to break into the San …

Apple has been served a court order requesting that it break security on the smartphone previously owned by the deceased gunman behind the San Bernardino attacks last year. Apple however is thought likely to contest the order, which comes at a time when debates are raging around encryption and the government …

The second largest TV and broadband provider in the U.S., Time Warner Cable, has released a statement saying that around a third of a million of its customers may have had their email and passwords copied away by hackers. At this early stage in the investigation however, it was keen …

You'd think with Sony's big security hiccup last year, where most PlayStation 3 owners had their details stolen by hackers, that companies would have learned their lesson. Virgin, despite having a founder who I heartily agree with on a few things, seems to be one of those companies, as according …

ARMA I, II and III, developer Bohemia Interactive, has announced that its website was hit by hackers and that some personal information may have been copied out from its user database. As a safety precaution, it has announced that all passwords will be reset. “We have unfortunately discovered that an …

If you have an EU account with PlanetSide 2, it might be a good idea to change your login information. While the devs are claiming everything is under control, it appears a nefarious few may have managed to steal email addresses and passwords of some European accounts for the MMO …

After a malicious attack on its forums last week, it appears that graphics giant nVidia is still fighting gremlins on a major scale and, at the time of writing, was not ready to let people back in. KitGuru uses good old spy satellite technology to uncover more of the truth. …