Companies have various ways of encrypting passwords. There are also techniques called salting and hashing. The upshot is, the average user will not take the time to find out how the affected company does their encrypting — or hashing or salting for that matter. ...
Researchers are able to compromise many popular social media sites by hacking SS7 network, intercepting an OTP, resetting passwords and taking ownership of accounts Researchers have exploited a flaw in the SS7 protocol to intercept one time passcodes (OTP) used by...
The biggest vulnerability to being hacked is still the human factor. Successful hackers have a bewildering array of psychological tricks in their arsenal. A cyber attack could come as a polite request, a scary warning, a message ostensibly from a friend or colleague,...
