Ars Technica

WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords

All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing them ...
Bleeping Computer

Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code. An ...
Bleeping Computer

WordPress AIOS plugin used by 1M sites logged plaintext passwords

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress security plugin, used by over a million WordPress sites, was found to be logging plaintext passwords from user login attempts to the site's database, putting ...
Dark Reading

Fortanix Builds Hardware Security Wall Around Plaintext Search

Fortanix is bringing hardware security technology to database search with Confidential Data Search, with the goal to help organizations process highly sensitive data in databases. Fortanix's ...