Dirty Frag, a critical Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch and giving hackers root, has gone public after an ...

Just in time for World Password Day, Kaspersky is reminding everyone that outdated hashing algorithms such as MD5 remain among the worst choices for storing passwords.

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned users to update their Linux systems following the discovery ...

PamDOORa Linux backdoor abuses PAM modules for SSH persistence and credential theft, increasing Linux server compromise risks ...

Tired of forgetting passwords or reusing weak ones? The passphrase approach makes strong security easy to remember—and harder ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

It's a more 'reliable' exploit than most.

Be honest with me. How many of your passwords are still some version of your pet’s name followed by a number? Studies have shown that roughly 80% of data breaches involve weak or reused passwords.

Rainbow tables have long been part of the password cracking playbook. These precomputed lookup tables map hashes back to their original plaintext values. Instead of brute forcing a password from ...

Smart home devices may make your life easier, but remember that to hackers, they're just another attack vector, like these ...