There are so many sites that store passwords in the clear that normally when I come across one, I make a mental note to never trust it with anything too important, or to find a similar service that ...

Google has revealed it had left some business users' passwords exposed in plain text. In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant said it had discovered the issue in Google's popular enterprise product, ...

This won't affect many people, but it still proves that Apple has to wake up. Soon. Someone (or more than one) is sleeping at the wheel here, no doubt. This is just shameful for *any* company. For a ...

The debate is ever-lasting – and the war never-ending! We are talking about the Internet browser wars here. A lot has been discussed about them recently. Some say Google Chrome is the fastest of ’em ...

In a damning privacy revelation, Facebook admitted to storing “hundreds of millions” of account passwords in plain text — a flabbergasting breach with good data security practices. “As part of a ...

The phone hacking scandal has made us touchy about security loopholes. Today we learn that Android stores passwords as plain text -- but should we be worried? Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV ...

Uh-oh, says Facebook, it turns out millions of user passcodes were stored in plaint text on the social network’s servers. Facebook disclosed the mistake that risked exposing the passwords of Facebook ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...

Tens of thousands of servers have a hard-coded, plain-text password that could yield remote access to a management interface for a server, according to a security researcher. The problem is within a ...

Facebook isn't the only big tech company found to be storing passwords in plain text. Google has warned G Suite users that an "error" in a password recovery implementation left some of their passwords ...

In a blog post today, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, ...